The Binding

A Victorian retelling of Philip K Dick's Total Recall (sort of)

I think overall I enjoyed more of this book than not. The idea itself is terrifying. Imagine someone abusing you over and over and the abuser then takes those memories away from you so they can abuse you again, over and over again and you never remember. Horrific!!

I do wonder if putting part 2 first would have helped the story flow a little better. In part 1 Emmet goes off to be an apprentice “binder” because he has the gift, there is no mention of this at all in part 2 (set before part 1) which seems a little odd, very odd. Also a book devoid of any likeable characters. pretty much everyone is horrible.