In Nora, Micah, and Winters world, people can take pills that make them instantly forget the bad things they seewhich comes in handy since bombings within their city are a daily occurrence. On her first trip to the forgetting clinic, Nora finds out what her mother is taking pills to forget, and decides that she must remember it.
She teams up with Micah and Winter to produce a comic, titled Memento, depicting the memories they have been told to forget, and it goes viral, catching the attention of the authorities. Now, Nora, Micah, and Winter are in a race to stay one step ahead of the authorities, who will undoubtedly force them to take the big forgetting pill in order to make sure they stay in line.
What happens if people could just make bad memories go away with one pill? What kind of deceitful and harmful world would that create? Angie Smibert answers these scary questions in the shockingly believable MEMENTO NORA, a short and quick-paced dystopian read that will remind you of the bestand worstparts of hi-tech futuristic thriller movies.
Smiberts dystopian world-building is believable. Nora, Micah, and Winter live in hi-tech dystopian world, where everythingeverything that is not being bombed, or purposely ignored by the authorities, that isis pristine and perfect and chock-full of personalized advertising. Thats Noras life. On the other side is the world in which Micah and Winter live, which is scruffier, less well organizedand, unfortunately, less well-depicted than Noras world. While I could picture the orderly world in which Nora lives, I had a more difficult time seeing Winters obstacle course of a house, or Micahs beehive of a communal living area. How do the two different places fit together? I couldnt really picture how the main characters traveled between the two different worlds.
The book, it seems, focused more on the plot and less on character development. The plot was quick, snappy, and a little frightening, although at times I did feel like it resorted to off-page moments to work things out. In comparison, the three protagonists are woefully underdeveloped. They didnt really stand out to me as unique characterswhich is not to say that character development isnt possible under 200 pages, just that I dont think MEMENTO NORA did that as much as I wanted. The plot, too, kind of fell off towards the end, speeding towards something that was out of the characters control, but which I never fully believed either.
MEMENTO NORA is an interesting and diverting dystopian read, with a decent world-building and plot. In terms of character development, however, I have read others in which I was more invested.
She teams up with Micah and Winter to produce a comic, titled Memento, depicting the memories they have been told to forget, and it goes viral, catching the attention of the authorities. Now, Nora, Micah, and Winter are in a race to stay one step ahead of the authorities, who will undoubtedly force them to take the big forgetting pill in order to make sure they stay in line.
What happens if people could just make bad memories go away with one pill? What kind of deceitful and harmful world would that create? Angie Smibert answers these scary questions in the shockingly believable MEMENTO NORA, a short and quick-paced dystopian read that will remind you of the bestand worstparts of hi-tech futuristic thriller movies.
Smiberts dystopian world-building is believable. Nora, Micah, and Winter live in hi-tech dystopian world, where everythingeverything that is not being bombed, or purposely ignored by the authorities, that isis pristine and perfect and chock-full of personalized advertising. Thats Noras life. On the other side is the world in which Micah and Winter live, which is scruffier, less well organizedand, unfortunately, less well-depicted than Noras world. While I could picture the orderly world in which Nora lives, I had a more difficult time seeing Winters obstacle course of a house, or Micahs beehive of a communal living area. How do the two different places fit together? I couldnt really picture how the main characters traveled between the two different worlds.
The book, it seems, focused more on the plot and less on character development. The plot was quick, snappy, and a little frightening, although at times I did feel like it resorted to off-page moments to work things out. In comparison, the three protagonists are woefully underdeveloped. They didnt really stand out to me as unique characterswhich is not to say that character development isnt possible under 200 pages, just that I dont think MEMENTO NORA did that as much as I wanted. The plot, too, kind of fell off towards the end, speeding towards something that was out of the characters control, but which I never fully believed either.
MEMENTO NORA is an interesting and diverting dystopian read, with a decent world-building and plot. In terms of character development, however, I have read others in which I was more invested.
