Wow! This book’s main concept has been scripted at one of my most favorite Black Mirror series episode 3 of first season: “The Entire History of you” sharing the same idea: accessing the memory records of someone else’s, hearing, seeing, feeling them can cost you more than you expected. ( if you haven’t watched! Go for it! New Dr. Who is also one of the casts)

Robert Downey Jr already loved this idea so much and bought the movie rights for his production company. But before seeing the idea as a movie, it turns out as a twisty, dystopian book and served us freshly baked from oven.

As soon as I saw the same brilliant concept, I was so excited to read this book. But I didn’t enjoy the execution of this finest idea.

The first half of the book made me felt like I attended a long, boring conference about the importance of Enhanced Memory: it kept going and going, never stopped. A few times I went back to make sure if I didn’t read the same pages over and over because I felt like I read the same words, same manifestations. There are too many repetitive paragraphs.
This started not like a dystopian story. It was more like analysis of what did go wrong with the dystopian world.

Second half was so much better and the author added some great ideas into the concept and the conclusion is also semi satisfying so when you pass through the first half, the book gets a little better.

I’m giving solid, not bad but I truly expected more from this kind of genius story line stars. I got a little disappointed. If the first half could be edited and cleaned from repetitive cycle, it would be much interesting, mind bending, addictive reading because there is still so much potential with this promising premise.

Special thanks to NetGalley and Inkyard Press for sharing this digital reviewer copy with me in exchange my honest thoughts.

I did not finish this book. It was way too hard to get through. In the description it describes the book as a dystopian future, but the setting was more before/introducing the change to a dystopian world. I felt that the first 30% of the book was repetitive, and I was annoyed in reading the same things about the memories. It felt like a bit of background knowledge about the memories and how they worked would've been sufficient. I felt like I was reading a technical scientific manual versus a young adult book. I really wanted to love this book, but it just missed the mark for me.

I enjoyed the premise of this book, and I was pulled right in by the description. It reads a lot like an episode of Black Mirror, so fans of the show will likely enjoy this a lot. On the other hand, I found some parts, especially at the beginning, to be very repetitive and slow. It builds a sense of "wrongness" before things are revealed, but I also wish we used the time to maybe take a deeper dive into the implications of Enhanced Memory.

This book has a slow-fast rhythm, I found myself struggling to focus during the slow parts, but zoomed in 100 percent when it picked up the pace.
This book is almost like an episode off black mirror. What would happen if you could experience something by taking the memory of someone else?
Would we all stop living and view life as a third party?
I’m giving this book 3 stars because some parts were amazing and other parts dragged out to long, repeating the same things over in different ways.