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La Cite de L'Oubli by Sharon Cameron, Alexandra Maillard

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whitneysederberg's review against another edition

4.0

I really liked this book!! It was kinda slow at the start but it picked up so much at the end that I unknowingly stayed up past two in the morning reading it

librarydoc's review against another edition

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5.0

Book Talk:
Imagine that every 12 years, you would forget everything. Who you are, what you've done, all gone. For the residents of Canaan, this is their reality, and the only way to survive The Forgetting is to document everything in books and carry the knowledge with you everywhere. Nadia is the exception. When everyone else forgets, she remembers. And she may pay for those memories with her life.

My Thoughts:
Cool premise. I actually didn't guess where the book was heading for much if the story and was pleasantly surprised by the twist. I liked this one a lot. Good story that kept my interedt.

My Recommendation:
4.5 stars
Grades 7 and up (violence, interest level)

cmworsham's review against another edition

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reflective slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? N/A

4.75

Wonderful themes of grief and truth and perception and I loved the world building. I’d give it 5 stars except I generally enjoy a faster paced book most of the time

zapkode's review against another edition

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5.0

{My thoughts} – I was really interested in reading this book based on the premise to which it is written. According to the back story every 12 years everyone in Canaan forget everything about themselves. They have some idea about who they are because they wear books that help to tell their life stories and when they fill a book up it gets cataloged in the archives. The thought of being able to forget yourself, your family, all the bad that has happened to you or that you have done in your life seems like an interesting concept to me. I often wonder what it would be like if my life was different, if I had chosen things differently or if certain things hadn’t of happened to me. I am sure that everyone has wondered things like this before. This book gives you an idea of what could happen if you weren’t forced to remember, if you had the option to choose to forget. If you had the ability to change your story, although your story may or may not change for the better anything is possible when you chose to forget, or choose to help yourself remember.

Nadia and her family however have an even bigger obstacle. They seem to have the ability to remember somethings from before the forgetting. Because of this their lives are lived slightly different then everyone elses. Nadia learns throughout the pages of the book that Canaan isn’t what the population has come to believe it is. She begins to understand their are things that have been hidden from everyone and she begins to question everyone and everything around her. She learns that she has allies and the strangest of places and enemies in some of the most uncommon places. She learns that there is more to her history and to the history of Canaan then she or any other person living there has been allowed to believe. She learns that she has the ability to change things and that is exactly what she sets out to do, but with a little extra help.

If you’d like to know what happens you will have to read the book, as for me I am going to be curling up with book two very shortly.

I highly recommend this book for anyone that enjoys dystopian novels. This one like so many I have read in the past was so easy to fall in love with. The world building is wonderfully written and the characters are both likeable and unlikeable. I really did enjoy this book and hope that others will as well.

dayamarie's review against another edition

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4.0

Great story! Plenty of twists and turns. The world in this book is different than what we know, yet the author describes it in such a way you become immersed in it.