The Forgetting
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Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to the Forgetting forever.
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2 primary books#1 in The Forgetting
The Forgetting is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Sharon Cameron.
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5 stars!! Everything kept me interested to where I couldn't stop thinking about it or reading it, so surprising and well-executed!!
I think it's a bit of a mess– I loved reading the book and would definitely recommend it to people I know, but it's not perfect. It felt like a mix of dystopian classics (like 1984, We, Brave New World, and what have you, but simpler, more in-your-face) with generic Young Adult. It has all these great themes which I love yet it's filled to the brim with YA-clichés and romance. It's a brilliant book– for its audience.
The worldbuilding is fantastic. The characters were fleshed out and relatable. The romance felt realistic and real, and while the book felt a bit slow at times, it's a quick read.
The concept is great and the execution is not what I was expecting. It's worth a read.
