The Mechanics of Memory by Audrey Lee BookSirens ARC

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DEBUT NOVEL

Book First published August 27, 2024

Blurb

Never Forget.

Memory is Copeland-Stark’s business. Yet after months of reconsolidation treatments at their sleek new flagship facility, Hope Nakano still has no idea what happened to her lost year, or the life she was just beginning to build with her one great love. Each procedure surfaces fragmented clues which erode Hope’s trust in her own memories, especially the ones of Luke. As inconsistencies mount, her search for answers reveals a much larger secret Copeland-Stark is determined to protect.

But everyone has secrets, including Hope.


The Mechanics of Memory Book Review

I received the Review Copy of this book and my thanks to the team of BookSirens, the publisher and the author for the copy.

All views expressed in this review are my own and based on my reading of this book. Some of the initial comments were made as I progressed in this book and I have not tried editing them as it expresses my contiguous thoughts as I proceeded with the story.


3.5 stars for me.
I received an advance review copy for free from BookSirens and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

The story blurb drew me in with reminders of the superb movie Inception which plays to a similar scale of memory manipulation.
The story plot was superb and the very idea of being able to retrieve and remove memories at will is a home run in itself. For fantasy readers the reference would be Harry Potter and the Pensieve where you could extract memories and remove at will.
What Audrey has done here is bring the fantasy into sci-fi territory and she has managed it quite well with a corporation behind the technology and where there is capital and power there stands corruption and sleaze.
There are questions as to why the tech seemed not to work for Hope our protagonist when it came to a particular memory strand.
This is a fine example of a sci-fi thriller with the story moving at a good pace and for a debut novel it delivers more than it promises at several times. Audrey does a fine job and keeps scattering red herrings all over the story and a deft reader who is seasoned enough with thrillers may find the path to the conclusion. For everyone else it would be a smorgasbord of clues that keeps hitting dead ends and leave them in a bind.

The story delivers with its premise, there are a few shortcomings in the supporting characters who needed a little fleshing out. Audrey's control over the story and the deft pace make the reader skip these mild speed-breakers and keep the story flowing.

All in all its a thrilling ride and I would be looking forward to more from the author.

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