A format for a book that I have never read nor have ever thought about before 60 people all have one thing in common - and you will have that same thing in common to - you will die. Morbid ? Yes! True - also yes. I think this is an interesting read that would make a great college classroom discussion or even something like an ethics class. What and who did you leave behind and what is the mark that was left.

The writing of this book was very different. There wasn’t really a plot as much as a “message”. It was a bunch of obituaries of people. Throughout the book, you could see a link between people but I was waiting for the ending to come together. It doesn’t. It’s just a message of how we all die and will have obituaries to look back on.

Thank you NetGalley for giving me the chance to read this book ahead of time in exchange for a review. You should read it!

The format of the book is similar to epistolary format but not exactly like that. The concept is unique. It has news articles and eulogy. The book has investigation insights of the woman who drowned and her AI mother refuse to give up. Poppy Fletcher died and the cause of her death was drowning in east river. There were many thoughtful things and thought provoking concepts. Overall, it was an interesting read.

Many thanks to the Author and Publisher

This was a really interesting concept for a story, it had everything that I was looking for from the description. The characters were everything that I wanted and thought the overall feel worked with them. Eden Robins has a great writing style and loved that it was told in a different medium.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with this book for free in exchange for my review! All opinions are my own.

This was a very strange book. I thought the premise sounded unique but I wasn't expecting it to be very as strange as it was. It was an ok book. Perhaps I am just not meant to read a lot of sci fi books. Still, I might consider reading more of Eden Robbin's books in the future.






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This is one of the most interesting books I have read in a long time, format-wise. I think it perfectly fit the story and it genuinely felt like searching on Google and finding more information piece by piece.
However, it was really hard to follow the story for me personally. The overall themes and feeling came across right as intended (I think), but I don't know if I'm just unable to follow this or if it needs a second or a third read to understand.
Because there was no coherent storyline, with a clear beginning or end, maybe that's what makes me feel like I didn't "understand" it. 
While I had a couple of moments where I thought I would quit and not finish, I'm glad I did finish. Some pieces fell together by the end and the feeling came through.
I think it's a very real prediction of how the world could develop and that added to the vibe. 
I do think I could've been more emotionally invested if it was in a more traditional format, which kind of frustrates me.
I would recommend this book, but I think only a very specific subset of people will like it, or manage to make it to the end.

The premise of this book is what drew me to it but it really fell flat. Rarely do I ever not finish a book, but sadly I just could not get to the end of this one.

I appreciate netgalley for allowing me the opportunity to read this early.

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

The book as a meal: Like chewing paper with a smidge of flavor
The book left me: Bored :(

Why did this call out me?
The cover seemed interesting and up my alley. The blurb was also fascinating, and it teased elements of AI. Ultimately left me questioning why I was drawn to it in the first place🤨

Pick-Up-able? Put-down-able?
Put-down-able. My stubborness kept me coming back for more, because I am delulu. I was never eager for my next "reading bubble"-_-

How is it paced?
In my mind I was leafin' through newspapers and official documents. The slow pacing and "newspapery" style persists🥱

What about progression?
Sluggish. Neither improves or falls off really. At least here it is consistent; in being boring

Issues:
Tough writing style
Character obituary mentions a character, next obituary is that character that mentions another character, next character is that character ...
None of the things I read felt important or relevant

Good things:
Book concept is very new to me
Satisfies my morbid curiosity of ✨death and what's left✨

What makes this different?
Written entierly in obituaries, official documents and definitions

How did it feel to read?
It felt like an assigment from work where I was handed a hundred different papers. In these papers is both relevant and irrelevant information. I am supposed to find the relevant info. The ratio of relevant to irrelevant is heavily skewed

What mood would i read this in?
Best read in a phase of existential crisis. I was not in that phase and should probably have waited a little💀

Better or worse than expected?
Ultimately fell short. I even napped, and I am not sure if napping is increasing or decreasing the score. I think my oversight of a particular detail in the blurb contributed to my disappointment😴

Where does this fall in my tier list ranking?
Earns a spot in E tier. Sadly :(

Thank you NetGalley for allowing me to review this book.

The blurb tempted me immediately. Told in different people’s obituaries, this book was written beautifully but disappointed me. The short, interconnected stories were nice but failed to meet my expectations of a story about “an AI woman grappling with grief after the mysterious death of her human daughter.” This had the potential to be such an interesting book, but ended up just telling the story of many people’s deaths interspersed with some of the AI story we were promised.

Full transparency — I DNF’d (did not finish) this book at the 30% mark. The description of this book sounds SO interesting. The book kicks off with a newspaper article of a mysterious girls death, cool. Then, a copy and paste of a dictionary definition, okay. Then, an obituary of a random person, HUH? And so on, exactly in this pattern. No plot, no story. Just obituary of a random person… Definition of a random word… For the first THIRD. This had such great potential but the execution was not there.

» dnf at 34%

➞ i don't know what i was expecting from this, but the blurb sounded interesting and i got curious and that combined with it being on the read now section of netgalley led us to here.

i should've stayed curious.

🧸┊the plot: according to the blurb it's supposed to be a story about an AI woman whose human daughter mysteriously dies, which is a part of some bigger issue killing the planet or something? from what i read i didn't really feel a plot at all but we'll go with the blurb.

💐┊my thoughts: the way this is structured is weird. instead of being told like a regular story with chapters and paragraphs and flow, it's entirely through obituaries and news articles and stuff like that. this was completely new for me and it was interesting at first, but it got old and honestly lost me. maybe i would've cared more about the story if we were actually following the *supposedly* main character instead of being told about a bunch of people that i don't care about.

it felt like we were rushing through a lot of different topics or mini plots or something rather than actually telling a story at all, really. the timeline has jumps and some alternate histories (is this the right term?) which seems like it'd fun and exciting but really just made this all the more confusing.

➞ overall a fascinating concept with questionable execution. or at least an execution that wasn't for me, but i can see how someone might like it .. maybe. i guess. idk i might question ur sanity but to each their own! there were parts that i liked but it just wasn't worth continuing when there's other books i'd rather be reading.

🏷️┊tw: death, illness. keep in mind there may be more that i forgot here! ur mental health matters <3

thank you to netgalley and the publisher for an arc!

The idea of this book really intrigued me, but the actual story confused me. While concept of this book is very interesting, I felt like Robins spent a lot of time telling me about how other people in the world lived their life and very little time about Peregrine’s grief over Poppy—which is unfortunate as that is what most intrigued me when I read the blurb. Every new chapter was practically a new person, and it was all very difficult to keep straight. There are a lot of historical aspects to this and it was interesting to see how AI was linked to sociological events. This wasn’t it for me, but I still enjoyed the opportunity to read this book!!

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for the opportunity to read this book before release in exchange for an honest review!

I was very intrigued by the synopsis of this book, tying AI and the conception of a child and mystery of her death together, but I found it incredibly hard to follow and honestly struggled to keep reading. I pushed through hoping it would somehow make sense, but each section felt rather random and much of the book seemed irrelevant to the story. These puzzle-style books are the rage in some circles, and I have liked a few, this one just didn’t suit me.

Eden’s writing was beautiful, and I believe if the book were laid out differently I would have enjoyed it more.

The idea of this book at the core is good, and had a lot of potential. However, it failed to deliver. The writing style is interesting, it is written purely in obituaries related to the people that contribute to the story. The description said implied it was a story that shows what it means to be human and tells a story about a grieving AI. I did not feel connected to the character at all, and there wasn't enough of peregrine in the story to establish that connection. the story wasn't gripping. I found myself uninterested and struggling to continue reading. Reading this book felt like doomscrolling. I doubt I could've gotten through it if i didn't have to travel a lot today. The idea is great, but the execution just ended up being lackluster for me.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC.

The blurb of this book really got me hooked, unfortunately this book just fell short for me. I found it difficult to follow at times. I wish we would've had more from Peregrine and Poppy. I think what the book promised to deliver and what we ended up with are two different things and it was just a miss for me personally.

The writing is really good. I enjoyed reading about the life of each character's unique experience in life and about their death. But I wished I could read more about the mother-daughter duo. Even though every character were related to one another somehow and ultimately had impacted the birth of the ai and poppy and all the struggles they've been through, it gives us little information about the fugitive AI. I really felt bored by the time I finished the book.

The description promised a story of grief of the AI so I was expecting just their stories and struggles. So, I'm kind of dissappointed but I'm excited to see what other people might think about this book.

Remember You Will Die has a really interesting concept. In the future, an AI called Peregrine has given birth to a child. The child dies (not a spoiler - it's in the book's blurb). The story of the events leading up to and following this are told primarily through the obituaries of the people involved.

While I loved the concept and appreciated the effort, I found the reading of this book somewhat challenging. I found it a bit difficult at times to follow the story, as the timeline jumped across centuries. Also, I can't say I am hugely expert in obituaries but there were definitely a few instances where I thought...no, obituaries are not written like this.

So, while this one was overall a miss for me, I did like the concept and aim and I will be looking up other boos from this author.

Reading the blurb for this ARC, I felt it was going to be a really heart wrenching story about grief and the phenomena on AI having feelings. However, this was not the case. Robins uses a format where the story is only told in obituaries. While these obituaries interconnect with one another, it didn't give me what I ultimately wanted which was listed directly in the blurb:

"about one AI woman grappling with her grief after the mysterious death of her human daughter, and wondering what it really means to be human."

There weren't many personal stories being told about Poppy and Peregrine, and due to this, I lost interest pretty quickly. The blurb does mention obituaries telling the tale, spanning over centuries, but I didn't see many correlations between most of these obituaries and Peregrine's grief over Poppy.

Overall, I thought the concept was very interesting, and it definitely keeps you intrigued, but I just wanted more about the grief than about other people in relation to the AI. I also feel that there was so much trying to be said, that it wasn't fleshed out enough. I've never read anything like this, and I felt that was intriguing enough to keep going, but I think I would have had a better experience with focus on one plotline than trying to push all these concepts into one short novel. However, Robins has beautiful story telling and writing, and I will try to read something else in the future!

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I'm not going to lie - I was going to give this strange sounding ARC review a pass, but then I read the A.I. angle, and I'm a really sucker for strange A.I. concepts and Remember You Will Die had the strangest I'd seen yet (the story revolves around an A.I. that has given birth).

That said - strangest dominates this tome. As per the description the majority of the page-time in this book is from obituaries, occasional etymology lessons, and the odd official document. There is no MC per se, no core plotline or being middle and end exactly. I was quite pleasantly surprised to find myself breezing through this book despite specific typical writing tropes.

The overall effect is a sort of extreme world building - while there is a story to follow throughout the layers, the main effect is creating a strong sense of past-present?-and-future. And this book does have some very unusual alternate history (and even a brief dabble of time-travel). Some of the alt history felt somewhat edgy, I'm not sure if anything offense happens but I can see how some might find this squiffy (there is an alternative history thing where Anne Frank survives).

Finally I found it interesting how concepts around A.I. were linked to other major sociological events - AIDS, Global Warming, Sexism, Roman History(?)

Anyway I certainly don't regret reading this book - but I will say its a strange deep dive - I'm interested to hear other's thoughts on this!