Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon Review
February 7th, 2007 by admin
As part of my ongoing tribute to Sidney Sheldon, who passed away recently, I’m re-reading his novels and reviewing them. He was a wonderful writer. I came to know his writing through reading his fiction books. If you haven’t read his books, I suggest you do. If you have read them, this might be a good time to go back and read them again.
Memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon
This book is a sequel to “The Other Side of Midnight.” Read that book before reading “Memories of Midnight;” otherwise the surprise ending of “The Other Side of Midnight will be ruined. I’ll try to give you an idea of was this book, the sequel is about, without giving away the storyline of “The Other Side of Midnight.”
“Memories of Midnight” was released in hardcover in 1990 and is Sidney Sheldon’s 10th novel. This book highlights two of the main characters from “The Other Side of Midnight,” Catherine Alexander Douglas and Constantine Demiris. In this book we find out that Catherine survived the attempt made on her life by her husband Larry Douglas, and Larry’s girlfriend Noelle Page (Noelle was also the mistress of Constantine Demiris).
Catherine had lost her memory, but it’s starting to come back to her. Constantine is worried that Catherine’s memory is going to start remembering things he’d rather keep a secret so he sends her to London to work for him and assigns people to keep an eye on her and report back to him. Meanwhile he starts to order the murder of people who know Catherine’s true identity and that she is still alive.
Like Sidney Sheldon’s other books, there are plot twists that change things in a heartbeat. Suddenly Catherine finds out that someone is trying to kill her. You may think you know how the book is going to end, but a truly great and shocking ending awaits.
Like most sequel books, I don’t think it’s quite as good as the first one but is still very good.
My rating (0-10 smilies): 9 ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☺