Summary (probably contains spoilers, especially if you have not read the first two books):
This is the third book in the Memento Nora series, but that doesn't actually matter. Within this book, Micah, Nora, Aiden, and Velvet each tell their final adventures with the MemeNet.
Micah and his mom are finally in a new place to live, off the streets. He doesn't want to screw things up for her, so he goes to school obediently, but all of a sudden this memory pops up into his head that his father is a traitor and things start going bad again. His mother loses her job again and his cozy little place no longer seems like a good idea. The only thing is, Micah doesn't believe the memory. This sends him on a quest to find out information about his father.
Nora's father is fighting for custody of her. She is staying in his swanky apartment, but is really very bored. Her only time that she is happy is when it is the weekend and she is with her mother and Micah. When Nora overhears that her father wants to move them to Germany, she makes a mistake by bumping into a rather important person and her father gets furious. This leads to Nora helping her mother fight the custody battle
Aiden is attempting to break the identification chips and replace them with ones that are not controlled by TFC.
Velvet's father has come home, but things aren't quite right. She wants to really fix things and stop the Patriot Party from basically taking over the world. She also has to figure out what she has remembered and what she has forgotten.
My thoughts:
Well, I'm sorry first hand for probably giving away too much within the summary. For such a short book, there is a lot going on. Since I had not read the first two books, I learned about the entire world through this one. Cheers to Smibert for writing a book that did not leave me wondering what was going on, even though I have only read the final book of the trilogy. While I am now going back to read the other two books, I was completely aware of what TFC was, who the characters were to one another, and basically what happened in the previous book by each of the characters struggle to figure out what memories they had were real or not. It was an excellent plot device because I was able to get to know the background and the characters at the same time. I was immediately sucked into the world that the teens lived in. I love the idea of being able to erase memories and then how to know what is real and what may have been implanted into your memory. It is terrifying and yet completely possible. Mixing this along with Extras (The Uglies) makes me wonder how close we are to actually inserted chips into our heads. Finally, I enjoyed the ending, but would have loved to have more. While it provides the satisfaction that most dystopians novels do, I still want to know the "what's next" part. Overall, I think that this will be a series that I need to keep in my classroom.
This is the third book in the Memento Nora series, but that doesn't actually matter. Within this book, Micah, Nora, Aiden, and Velvet each tell their final adventures with the MemeNet.
Micah and his mom are finally in a new place to live, off the streets. He doesn't want to screw things up for her, so he goes to school obediently, but all of a sudden this memory pops up into his head that his father is a traitor and things start going bad again. His mother loses her job again and his cozy little place no longer seems like a good idea. The only thing is, Micah doesn't believe the memory. This sends him on a quest to find out information about his father.
Nora's father is fighting for custody of her. She is staying in his swanky apartment, but is really very bored. Her only time that she is happy is when it is the weekend and she is with her mother and Micah. When Nora overhears that her father wants to move them to Germany, she makes a mistake by bumping into a rather important person and her father gets furious. This leads to Nora helping her mother fight the custody battle
Aiden is attempting to break the identification chips and replace them with ones that are not controlled by TFC.
Velvet's father has come home, but things aren't quite right. She wants to really fix things and stop the Patriot Party from basically taking over the world. She also has to figure out what she has remembered and what she has forgotten.
My thoughts:
Well, I'm sorry first hand for probably giving away too much within the summary. For such a short book, there is a lot going on. Since I had not read the first two books, I learned about the entire world through this one. Cheers to Smibert for writing a book that did not leave me wondering what was going on, even though I have only read the final book of the trilogy. While I am now going back to read the other two books, I was completely aware of what TFC was, who the characters were to one another, and basically what happened in the previous book by each of the characters struggle to figure out what memories they had were real or not. It was an excellent plot device because I was able to get to know the background and the characters at the same time. I was immediately sucked into the world that the teens lived in. I love the idea of being able to erase memories and then how to know what is real and what may have been implanted into your memory. It is terrifying and yet completely possible. Mixing this along with Extras (The Uglies) makes me wonder how close we are to actually inserted chips into our heads. Finally, I enjoyed the ending, but would have loved to have more. While it provides the satisfaction that most dystopians novels do, I still want to know the "what's next" part. Overall, I think that this will be a series that I need to keep in my classroom.
