Remember Me by Tracie Peterson

Remember Me
by Tracie Peterson

ISBN-13: 9780764237393
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
Released: March 7th 2023

Source: ebook review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

Book Description, Modified from Goodreads:
Addie Bryant is haunted by her past of heartbreak and betrayal. After her beau, Isaac Hanson, left the Yukon, she made a vow to wait for him. When she's sold to a brothel owner after the death of her father, Addie manages to escape with the hope that she can forever hide her past and the belief that she will never have the future she's always dreamed of.

Years later, Addie has found peace in her new life as a photographer, training Camera Girls to operate and sell the Brownie camera. But during the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expo in Seattle, Addie is reunited with Isaac. And when her past catches up with her, Addie must decide whether to run or to stay and face her wounds in order to embrace her life, her future, and her hope in God.


My Review:
Remember Me is a Christian romance set in 1909 in Seattle, Washington. Isaac and Addie promised to marry each other one day, but Isaac left to get a college degree and Addie's brothers sold her to a brothel owner who married her. Once widowed, she went to Seattle to hide and make a new life for herself. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Expo not only brings Isaac back into her life but her scheming brothers who want her money and who plan to sell her again. Isaac and her friends helped her against her brothers. Her friends helped her to heal from her past when she finally admitted her shame to her Christian friends, expecting to be rejected. They pointed out that she was a victim, it wasn't by her choice, and even if it had been, God forgives sins.

The main characters were likable and generally behaved realistically. However, Isaac genuinely thought that when he found Addie, they'd immediately marry and it'd be like nothing had happened in the past ten years that they'd been apart. Various people told him that he needed to give her time, get to know her now, and talk to her about what's holding her back. Still, he kept pushing because he didn't care about her ruined reputation and didn't understand that she did.

Sweet, caring Addie felt unworthy of any love and questioned why God allowed bad things to happen. She came to see some good come from her past and learned to trust that God loved her even if He allowed evil things to happen. Interesting historical details about the Expo and life in the Yukon were woven into the story. There was no sex or bad language. Overall, I'd recommend this enjoyable historical romance.


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