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Tell Me an Ending
by Jo Harkin
challenging
emotional
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Interesting concept, and an interesting execution of it. Whereas something like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind focused a lot on the emotional side of memory deletion, this book puts an additional focus on the bureaucratic and technical side of things. This made the book feel so much more real. Imagine an organisation having to inform clients - who chose to not remember their memory removal - that they have the right to get their memory restored. What does that do to people, how do you handle it as an organisation, how does the general population react? This was a great question to pose. The individual POVs were a nice way to tell the story, but don't read this to get the dramatic 'reveal' of the deleted memories - read it because it feels real, and makes you think about it more than just giving you plot twists and turns.