The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron

Time for another review my lovely friends and readers! 

A book that I read this month and feel is a hidden gem, and I'm also glad I found it at my library before I'd even heard anything about it!  That's right I picked this book up on a whim- simply because it looked kinda cool and the name was intriguing.

 Title: The Forgetting

Author: Sharon Cameron

Sequels?: There is a sequel- but I haven't read it yet seeing as I just finished this one.

Published:  September 13th, 2016

 Genre: Scifi



 [Synopsis: What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes. 
   Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person's memories -- of parents, children, love, life, and self -- are lost. Unless they have been written. 
  In Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows exactly who hasn't written the truth. Because she is the only person in Canaan who has never forgotten. But when Nadia begins to use her memories to solve the mysteries of Canaan, she discovers truths about herself and Gray, the handsome glassblower, that will change her world forever. 
  As the anarchy of the Forgetting approaches, Nadia and Gray must stop an unseen enemy that threatens both their city and their own existence -- before the people can forget the truth. And before Gray can forget her.]



   So I started reading this book- and next thing I know I was on chapter three in the library where my brother was supposed to pick me up- and I had three missed calls from him because I had been so sucked into the story.
   I've been crazy busy these days- so that fact that I lost track of time like that and couldn't get it out of my head was wonderful and rather bad. I'd forgotten what it felt like to suddenly look up thinking it'd only been a few minutes- but it was an hour later and you weren't sure where you were for a minute because you'd been so into the story and the world and its characters!

At the beginning of the first chapter I had been thinking ''Oh, this is another character that is just generic and plain-''
 Boy, was I wrong- I learned my lesson that I was not going to get through the first 15 pages without caring about the protagonist like she was a cinnamon roll that needed to be protected even though they'd already lived through some crazy s***.

(I literally bought the book as soon as I finished reading it, and it's now on my bookshelf BTW!)


But onto the world and plot!!
  So I was thinking the book was more along the lines of The City of Ember or The Hunger Games (because Gray and Nadia gave me Peeta and Katniss vibes for most of the book honestly)- I was once again WRONG! Gray and Nadia were not to be compared to other couples in YA books, and neither was the world in The Forgetting.

  When I say the genre of this book is sci-fi- I mean it is sci-fi, there is no mistake, though I did have to wait til like halfway through to see everything. And it is a sci-fi book that fits and brings out what you think of when you hear the words ''Science Fiction". Except for aliens- there are no aliens (just to put that out there).

  I couldn't guess where the crap things were going in this story- whether that was because I was too invested in the characters (which is very likely) I don't know- I just couldn't guess anything correctly! The book exceeded everything and took it to new twists and levels that I would've thought made the story more plain and cringy. But the author tied it so well into the plot- the villain- the world, that it was not plain and cringy by any means.


Speaking of villains....
One of the antagonists was rather obvious from page one, the second one- who happened to be the big bad villain- was revealed in an interesting way that was not really a plot twist or hard to guess either. But what was a surprise was the motives and stories of both antagonists...
No spoilers there though! :P


One last thing... there apparently is a book two...

My prayers were answered, but now I'm terrified of what's going to happen in the sequel.....



Have any of you read The Forgetting?? 
If so did you like it? If not- would you want to??


Have a good one guys!
~Books with Noel ;)