Series: Forgotten
Volume: 2/?Publisher: Independently published
Genre/s: Contemporary M/M Romance
Length: 75 000 words
Read in: English
Review copy format: epub
Rate:✮✮✮✮✮✮
A few months earlier, Jared had a serious accident that completely changed his life. The young man lost his memory and began a long and very difficult process of fighting for his independence. Trying to find himself and start a new life, he moved to Leeds, where he took a job in a tattoo parlour.
This is where he meets Kyrone, a confident, charming pole dancer from Heaven and Hell Club. However, it quickly turns out that Kyrone is more than just a handsome face and a perfect body, which makes it harder for Jared to tell the truth about his health. Because although everyone carries their own baggage, he has a really heavy one.
This is where he meets Kyrone, a confident, charming pole dancer from Heaven and Hell Club. However, it quickly turns out that Kyrone is more than just a handsome face and a perfect body, which makes it harder for Jared to tell the truth about his health. Because although everyone carries their own baggage, he has a really heavy one.
"Forgotten" is the second volume of the moving and romantic series "Heaven and Hell Club" by Colette Davison. What I definitely like very much in this installment is the "loose", subtly outlined plot. It doesn't focus on some kind of a "story bomb", but on the characters' lives and their course, their problems and feelings. These aren't the topics that in real life are based on the principle of building tension in order to reach a great climax. And the fact that in "Forgotten" they are presented in such a real, natural way makes this novel so amazing, unique and in many ways beautiful. What's more, just like in real life, also in this story the characters don't face only one "opponent", because there are definitely more than one. Here are some examples: amnesia, weakness of the body, weight of other people's expectations, promise that makes you miserable, fear of the future. In short, the advantage of "Forgotten" is undoubtedly the fact that the novel presents life in a believable way.
Reviewing this novel, we certainly cannot forget about the characters, as they are the most important element of this story. Jared and Kyrone are indisputably beautiful and reading "Forgotten" we see it all the time. Their creation focuses mainly on showing the reader what kind of people these two characters are, and thus setting them in specific situations in which they can show us their true nature and personality. In this way we get to know them as if we were dealing with real people. In their case, we don't rely on assumptions, but we draw conclusions, which in my opinion is extremely important, because in this way our relationship with the characters strengthens. What's more, both Jared and Kyrone can, in some respects, be a role model for readers as they represent strength, courage and love. Colette Davison has really created valuable, wonderful characters that we easily fall in love with.
In "Forgotten" I also really liked the way the author approached the problem of amnesia. One of our main characters is a young man who doesn't remember his life before the accident he had. So we can easily guess what difficulties he has to deal with. However, Colette Davison went a step further, because she presented not only the problem of losing the memories, which to some extent results in not knowing who you are and losing your identity, but also makes us aware of the enormous burden that family and friends sometimes put on the shoulders of people with amnesia. It is worth noting, however, that the author did not focus only on this one side of the problem, but she gives us the opportunity to look at it from a different angle, from the perspective of carrying loved ones who suddenly, in the blink of an eye, become the strangers. So reading "Forgotten" we have this chance of looking at the problem of amnesia from two, in a way the most important sides, and the way the author shows them to us is really moving and allows us to really feel what the characters feel.
I think that the motif of a new beginning, which fills "Forgotten" from the very first page to the last sentence, also deserves our attention. In fact, in this novel we see the fight between the past and the present, in which the future is a reward. And this applies not only to Jared, but to almost every character we meet in this story. What is important in this case, the new beginning and the aforementioned fight originate from this one person, one soul, one light (as Chester Bennington sings in Linkin Park's song "One More Light"). In "Forgotten", Colette Davison shows us that one life, one person influences the lives of many others. Imagine a knitted sweater. When one loop breaks, it affects the entire stitch and the adjacent stitches. And that's what we see in this novel in which Jared influences his loved ones and some other people who surround him. I think that this representation of the essence of human life is really beautiful, even if our characters have to go through lots of drama and pain for us to realize it.
To sum up, "Forgotten" is a perfectly written novel, with deep story, lively, wonderful characters and some beautiful feelings. This book will give you hope for a better future, strength to survive difficult moments, courage to be happy. Believe me, reading "Forgotten" you will fall in love with it.
Headcanon: For each anniversary, Jared designs a new tattoo for Kyrone and is the one who tattoos on him.
Fanfiction idea: Kyrone decides to surprise Jared by playing Shakespeare's plays especially for him so that Jared doesn't have to read them. Ky plays them his own way and by himself.
AU idea: Jared has a car accident and Kyrone is the fireman who pulls him out of the wreck. Ky doesn't know why, but he can't forget the young man he rescued. He visits him in the hospital and that's how their friendship begins. In time it turns into a romantic relationship.
Here's some more about:
Book Title: Forgotten (Heaven and Hell Club Book 2)
Author: Colette Davison
Cover Artist: Colette Davison
Release Date: March 25, 2020
Trope/s: Hurt/comfort, disabled MC, small age-gap, one-night stand to lovers
Themes: Being true to yourself, trusting in others
Heat Rating: 3-4 flames
It is the second book in a series.
It can be read as a standalone, but does work better if read after Broken.
Blurb
Can he build a future, when he’s forgotten his past?
Jared has fought hard to achieve something close to ‘normal’. Needing to get away from his well-meaning but suffocating family, he follows a message he wrote on a scrap of paper to a new city, hoping to find a missing piece of his past.
When Kyrone, a cocky pole dancer at the Heaven and Hell Club, saunters into the tattoo parlour Jared works in, his life is turned upside down again. A passionate one night stand turns into something unexpected for both men. But life is never simple as they work out if they can have a future beyond what has been forgotten.
Forgotten is an MM romance with hurt/comfort, a small age gap, and two men who need to learn to be true to themselves. It is the second book in the Heaven and Hell Club series and, whilst it can be read as a standalone, works better if read after Broken.
Jared has fought hard to achieve something close to ‘normal’. Needing to get away from his well-meaning but suffocating family, he follows a message he wrote on a scrap of paper to a new city, hoping to find a missing piece of his past.
When Kyrone, a cocky pole dancer at the Heaven and Hell Club, saunters into the tattoo parlour Jared works in, his life is turned upside down again. A passionate one night stand turns into something unexpected for both men. But life is never simple as they work out if they can have a future beyond what has been forgotten.
Forgotten is an MM romance with hurt/comfort, a small age gap, and two men who need to learn to be true to themselves. It is the second book in the Heaven and Hell Club series and, whilst it can be read as a standalone, works better if read after Broken.
Excerpt
“I tell you what,” Kyrone said. “I’ll jump into the shower and then nip to the corner shop to get us something more substantial and healthier for breakfast. You can take a shower while I’m gone. How does that sound?”
Jared glanced at the pile of their clothes on the floor. He didn’t much fancy putting on dirty, slept-in clothes straight after a shower.
“I need to put some laundry on,” Kyrone said. “So I’ll throw your clothes in too.”
“What am I meant to wear in the meantime?”
“Nothing?” Kyrone asked hopefully. “I don’t mind if you wander around my flat naked.”
Jared laughed and shook his head.
“I’ve got a top you can wear.” Kyrone pursed his lips. “I’m pretty sure my underwear and jeans will swamp you, though.”
“Probably,” Jared agreed.
Kyrone extricated himself from beneath Jared and moved to an oversized chest of drawers. He rummaged through the drawers for a couple of minutes, giving Jared an unobstructed view of the man’s lean back and taut arse. With a small cheer, Kyrone pulled out a huge round-neck jumper with wide stripes in two contrasting shades of grey. It looked too big for Kyrone, let alone Jared.
Kyrone threw it across to him. “That should cover you up.”
“It still feels like you’re trying to hold me hostage for the afternoon,” Jared said in a teasing tone. “I can’t exactly go home, wearing nothing but an oversized jumper.”
Kyrone knelt on the bed, leaning forward onto his hands, his face close to Jared’s. “Do you want to go home?” he asked in a soft, low tone that made Jared shiver.
“No.”
“Then I don’t see a problem, do you?”
About the Author
Colette’s personal love story began at university, where she met her future husband. An evening of flirting, in the shadow of Lancaster castle, eventually led to a fairytale wedding. She’s enjoying her own ‘happy ever after’ in the north of England with her husband, two beautiful children and her writing.
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