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Posted February 24, 2008
I JUST finished the book. No less than 2 minutes ago. The book begins slow. At least in my opinion. But it is necessary since Nagata is trying to give you a basic setting in the beginning of her home and the world. Also one thing that just gets me irritated is that Nagata LOVES to describe things to a high level yet, when someone dies the feelings or presence that a loss of a loved one, her lover, happens she is okay. Seems like she just flicks the death of him is nothing. And the ending is also empty. Incomplete. Leaves loose ends. Leaving me wanting a more complete ending. Like what will happen now in the next life. Is the world still doomed to be stuck in that horrid cycle of death? But who knows? But in the end it is a great book. That I recommend. [Yaphet ROCKS!!]
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.Ten year old Jubilee lives with her parents and her brother Jolly in the remote outpost Temple Huacho located in the isolated wild of Kavasphir Hills, a place known for the frequency of the killing silver floods that terraforms the landscape with each new deluge. The family ¿owns¿ metabolic machines to keep them safe from the deadly quick flow of the silver. However, that fails when the silver claims Jolly while his younger sister watches in abject horror.
Several years later, a mysterious stranger seemingly walks out of the silver up to a teenage Jubilee asking for Jolly. Beside the awe of seeing what this man did, her fear of him makes her flee, but also wonder if her sibling lives. Needing to know, Jubilee plans to go on a quest to find her brother and learn the secrets of the silver accompanied by her Uncle Liam.
MEMORY is a powerful insightful coming of age science fiction thriller starring a wonderful protagonist seeking answers, but what she learns makes her wonder about a whole different set of personal questions rather than what she originally sought to understand. The story line is action packed yet contains a subtle theme of finding one¿s self to comprehend the world in which an individual resides. Though the silver remains ironically a somewhat unsolved puzzle, the reader will have a great time observing the brave heroine on her journey to ascertain the truth that takes her as much inside her self as the weird world she lives in.
Harriet Klausner
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Posted January 6, 2009
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A quest, a puzzle, and multiple lives:Jubilee is a bold young woman of seventeen, on the cusp of leaving the security of her family home to seek out her own future. But her life is thrown into tumult by a visit from a forbidding stranger who has come looking for Jubilee's beloved brother, Jolly—who is seven years dead.
Jolly died as a child, consumed in an unprecedented flood of "silver"—a mysterious substance resembling a thick, glowing fog. ...