Please Remember Me

4.5 Stars It has been far too long since I lost myself inside a Jacob Flores novel. I was caught by the description of 'Please Remember Me', and as I was reading, it became very easy to see some of Jacob and his partner in these two main characters. I was struck by the connection which Santi and Hank had, right from the start, having experienced the same myself. The love that fills every moment of these pages was humbling and beautiful.
Santi works way too hard. It's understandable as he's aiming for a partnership in his law firm, but it's a good thing his best friend Jill finally nags him into a vacation to sunny San Diego. There he meets Hank, a general contractor, and the heat between the two is instantaneous and combustible. Whew, Jacob, you had me fanning myself a few times. *grins* After two years of long-distance dating, Hank finally moves to Houston, and their life together can begin. One year later, Santi and Hank are still ecstatically in love and very close to their wedding date when an accident at a construction site steers their lives into a whole new direction.
“Maybe, but until he’s ready to walk with me down the road we started traveling down together, I’ll carry him. I’ll be his strength, his rock, his lifeline. Whatever he needs to make a full recovery.”
The direction the author proceeded to take me in was unpredictable, and I loved that. Since a member of my immediate family suffered a very severe traumatic brain injury a number of years ago, and, in fact, had some similar issues to Hank's, I think Jacob did an excellent job of detailing and describing the effects and recovery from such an injury. Not to mention all the emotional upheavals that naturally occur in a situation where one person remembers everything, and the other person has no idea what's happened in the past four years.
“You’re home now,” I said, forcing a smile. “Where you remember things. Perhaps this is where you should have always been. Who knows? But what I do know is that this is where you need to be right now. But I want you to know something.” A sob lodged in my throat and strangled my words.
“You’re in my heart. You’ve always been there. You are my home, and you’ll always have a home with me.”
Oh, Jacob. You made me cry and reach for the wine bottle. A beautiful love story, and you told it so very well. I absolutely adored the resolution, and this book is firmly entrenched as a favorite. Thank you, Jacob, it is wonderful!
NOTE: This book was provided by the author for the purpose of a review on Rainbow Book Reviews

I loved this book. It made me laugh, cry, smile and get a little hot and bothered.
The story begins when Hank wakes up from a coma two weeks after a fall at a construction site and has no memory of Santi, the man he has loved for the past three years and is set to marry in a few weeks. From there the story is told of Santi's struggle with \"the new Hank\", whose last memories include his ex-boyfriend and his life in another State, interspersed with flashbacks that tell their story from the day they met.
I was drawn right into the relationship of the two seemingly opposite men, bearish, pierced, yet still sparkly Hank and buttoned up, conservative, workaholic Santi. Their instant attraction when they meet at a nightclub is the beginning of many life changes for the two of them. A great secondary cast of friends and family round out the group. While their love is seemingly perfect, there is no longer any certainty that they will ever get back to the way things are. Santi is willing to do anything to spark a memory and bring back the man he loves, but is realistic in knowing it may never happen.
I have always been a fan of Jacob Flores' writing, and this has some of the most emotional scenes I've read in any of his books yet. There were moments as the two get reacquainted that just crushed me and ultimately Santi realizes there really is only one thing he can do for the man he loves, even if it destroys him in the process. This book had a little bit of everything, humor, joy, angst, heartache and sex, and I loved every minute of it.