
The Book of M
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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James Fouhey
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Emily Woo Zeller
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By:
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Peng Shepherd
Set in a dangerous near-future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself.
One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears - an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories.
Ory and his wife, Max, have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day, Max’s shadow disappears, too.
Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless.
As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure.
Like The Passage and Station Eleven, this haunting, thought-provoking, and beautiful novel explores fundamental questions of memory, connection, and what it means to be human in a world turned upside down.
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I’m not sure how to even tell anyone what this book is about. It’s a story about how most people lose their shadow and with it, little by little, all of their memories, until they don’t even remember that they need to eat. Also with the loss of their shadow comes the ability to do magical things, like putting wings onto the head of a deer. But for each magical act, more memories are lost until there is nothing left of the original person.
We follow the journey of Max who after two years has finally lost her shadow and run away, Ory her husband who travels the countryside looking for her, Naz who was an Olympic archer in the time before, and the Amnesiac who lost all of his memories due to an accident before The Forgetting.
I seriously had major chills all up and down my spine as I read the last few pages of The Book of M. My heart!! I am sure I won’t be able to get this book out of my head for a long while and have already caught myself looking for my shadow several times!
Peng Shepherd is a new author that I will be watching out for. If her first novel is this amazing, I can’t imagine how incredible her next ones will be!!
I did a reread by Audible and it was even better this time around!
5 zillion stars to this epic story!
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ehhhh
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Started strong and fizzled out
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The best books allow me to live as someone else for a while. #nailedit 😊
... but I wanted to know WHY!
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Sci-Fi here on earth!
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major cliffhanger!!
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The story was interesting and fun, and I enjoyed it. There were a few parts where I got lost though and didn’t really understand what was happening or what the solution was. This may have been a different experience if I were reading a paper book but it was hard to follow audibly. The ending caught me by surprise, which was great! My overall impression though was “meh”.
Not bad but not great
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A good story with mediocre characters
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Disliked: I wanted to understand the shadowless more, including their powers. There were descriptions but no reason to why and how. Some had more power than others. Also, I found that it dragged in the middle. I found myself tuning out. I’m not a fan of the female narration. It was too dramatic. By the end, it fell flat for me. The big twist was not as impactful, by this time I just wanted to finish and move on.
Hmmmm
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Stunning debut
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