Audience: Young Adult

Format: Hardcover/Owned

I am going to be flogged, and I don't know why I'm so surprised about it.

- first sentence

Nadia lives in Canaan, a city that is enclosed by white stone walls; a city whose residents periodically forget everything and everyone. No one knows why the Forgetting occurs every twelve years, but the people all keep journals to remind them of the important things after they forget. Nadia didn't forget and she is the only one. She doesn't know why, but she is determined to find out and help prevent the Forgetting. This is why she frequently breaks curfew and crosses over the walls (even though it is forbidden). As Nadia discovers the truth about Canaan, its people, and the Forgetting, she also faces danger and manages to fall in love.

I was surprised by some of the twists, but I kind of figured other ones out. Regardless, I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

This is an excellent story, highly recommended to fantasy fans and anyone who enjoys young adult books.

The Knowing - Sharon Cameron

WOW I really loved this book from the beginning to the very end, Beckett and Sarama are so freaking awesome and so cute together. And I have another book boyfriend In sexy, nerdy, Beckett. While I really remember liking The Forgetting a lot and having a crush on Gray, I have to say Beckett has him beaten. 

This book is just really great, it has some action and adventure, two totally different types of individuals that fall in love that shouldn't have ever meet. It's so interesting that in Samara's world that Beckett is considered the alien, even though his from earth. When I read about them loving each other I get it, while in some books such as The Last of the Firedrakes, I don't understand why Rory would fall for someone like Rafe. 

I loved that you don't have to read The Forgetting in order to read the Knowing, even though I wish I would have gone back and at least read the last 50 to 100 pgs of The Forgetting just for a refreshment course. I thought that Samara was very interesting and definitely no wall- flower. I really felt bad for her and not being able to forget anything, I would hate to have to relive everything you ever had to experience over and over again, without going insane. I loved that Beckett didn't stand in her way when she thought she had to do a certain thing alone. And how interested he was in her world. I am wondering if there will be another book in this world. Because while it had a conclusion to the story, it also ended in a way that there could be other stories to tell in this very interesting and most of the time crazy world!!!!!  

It's been a loooooong winter. I spent the majority of rereading the entire Throne of Glass series by Sarah J Maas. 

But the holiday titles are piling up and I started with this gift from my BFF first. 

The Forgetting. Winner on the pile. Highly recommend. Eerie AF!!! 

I was completely freaked out by the fact that an entire civilization forgets, EVERYTHING, every 12 years. Relying on their books, journals, to clue them in on what they forgot. 

"I am made of my memories" becomes a sinister thing in this book. I was haunted on every page and when things begin to come together, get ready for a surprise! 

GREAT book to break the ice. Pun intended.

Go F yourself winter! 

What an exciting journey I had inside this novel! As the days were ticking away, I wasn’t sure exactly if Nadia would be able to accomplish everything that she set out to do. The Forgetting is drawing near and the truth is still unclear.

Why, oh why Nadia, the dryer’s daughter is this happening? Why is The Forgetting occurring every 12 years? Why are individual’s minds being erased every twelve years? Why is there a wall around your community? Is it to protect you from something? The more that I read, the more questions I had but Nadia was right behind me. We were thinking alike for she was questioning the world that was around her as she moved about and the time for The Forgetting was nearly upon their community. Others around her were accepting of their destiny for that was how it had always been but Nadia was sharp and inquisitive and as she pursued the answers to her questions, she went full-heartedly. Nadia takes short trips over the wall, time where she should have been napping but its answers that she’s looking for. These answers come slowly and It isn’t until she’s forced to take Gray with her that things start to accelerate. The two of them, sometimes battling amongst themselves and other times feeding off each other provided an intense and riveting quest for answers that was amazing. It had my mind going the whole way, questions and concerns, thoughts and ideas where flooding my mind as I read.

So, would you want a fresh start every 12 years? How is this even feasible? What about your children? I loved every minute of this novel. Nadia’s adventure for the truth, became my own quest.

I’ve liked Sharon Cameron’s books in general, and this is another solid one from her. It’s a slightly different take on a dystopianish society–although it feels familiar in some ways, it also reminded me that sometimes tropes are tropes for a reason. And in the second half of the book, there are some interesting twists that change how the story unfolds.