![]() ![]() Even if it means rejoining the Shadows, the rebel group she swore off in the wake of the accident years earlier. When Madame threatens to put her mother up for auction, a Craewick practice in which a “criminal’s” memories are sold to the highest bidder before being killed, Etta will do whatever it takes to save her. Seventeen-year-old Etta Lark is desperate to live outside of the corrupt culture, but grapples with the guilt of an accident that has left her mother bedridden in the city’s asylum. The power-obsessed ruler of the city, Madame, has cultivated a society in which memories are currency, citizens are divided by ability, and Gifted individuals can take memories from others through touch as they please. ![]() The synopsis had me sucked in, and I was so ready to go into the world and join Etta on her adventure. This is why I was so excited to read The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy (in stores now!). I’ve mentioned before that YA doesn’t really only apply to those young readers and that I often find the stories much more compelling. Books like The Hunger Games series and Kiera Cass’s The Selection series are some of my favourite examples of stories that I will keep coming back to, even as I continue into my 30s. It had been a while since I read a good-old dystopian YA fiction. ![]()
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