Rating: 10/10
Age Rating: 13-up
Genre: Dystopian, Sci-fi, Fantasy
Content Warnings: Some battles, mild romance, and magic.
If you’ve been looking for a cool new sci-fi book, but with Christian values integrated in and a spell-binding storyline, then you’ve hit the jack-pot!
Lauren Mansy’s debut novel, The Memory Thief, is a unique story about a girl named Etta, who lives in a world where half the population has mind powers but where everyone sees memories as gifts that can be used as currency… or as a weapon to torture.
Living under the iron-fisted, Madame, and struggling with guilt over past decisions, Etta’s few goals in life include taking care of her little orphan friend, Ryder, and finding a way to get her mother out of the asylum. These plans all go awry when her mother is put up for auction.
Rather than willingly running back to the rebellion she’d been a part of, as so many heroines do these days, or raising one herself, Etta basically is forced to go to them for help… and they don’t want to help her.
After basically enslaving herself to the rebellion’s leader for life in return for him to save her mother, she agrees to go and rescue a man long thought dead from a ruler who is perhaps even more dangerous than Madame along with an interesting companion named Reid. Together, they embark on a journey that leads them to discover not only more about themselves, but about the realm they live in as Etta battles both physically and mentally over what happened several years ago.
We need these kinds of stories today, folks! We like to play the blame game, but when something bad happens, who truly carries the most guilt? We do.
Like Etta, we tend to fall into the trap of believing that ‘if only we hadn’t…’ or if ‘We’d just not been so stupid…’ even when it is plain to see from the other side that there was nothing we could have done differently. As the story goes on, our heroine learns to forgive herself, and let herself be forgiven by the ones she’s hurt. In doing so, she is, in the end, able to forgive others and turns out way happier than when her story begins.
With some truths we could all do with learning, interesting and loveable characters in a unique atmosphere told in a way that will keep you on your toes, this story is a must for anyone who loves fantasy or dystopian.
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