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(Don't You) Forget About Me
by Kate Karyus Quinn
After reading [b:Another Little Piece|12665819|Another Little Piece|Kate Karyus Quinn|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1350988374s/12665819.jpg|17780480] by this author before, I should have known this one would be really weird as well. I don't think it passes the weirdness of that book but I think it got pretty close.
(Don't You) Forget About Me is about a girl named Skylar who lives in a small town that's just weird, magical, and cursed. In the town, no one gets sick or dies- of natural causes. People tend to die other ways, mostly on the dreaded 'fourth year' when a teenager blows up and accidentally or intently kills people with bizarre magic. Four years ago, it was Skylar's sister who led classmates to their deaths and since then, Skylar has been in a drug induced haze trying to forget. Until she figures out the only way to get her sister back is to stop the four year cycle and maybe the town itself.
Really though, I'm still not sure of the plot here. It was all over the place. We have the current time but then every other chapter it skips around to three years, six years, four years ago in a second person type narrative to Skylar talking to her sister? I guess?
The town is weird, the drugs are weird, and the magic is weird. We have a main character who spends most of the book forgetting everything because she keeps taking some memory drug and she has powers that aren't explained. We have her sister who is mysterious and special. There's a sort of love interest who yet again, has unexplained powers. People disappear, they kill each other, children get kidnapped by birds, harmful magic dirt, something about rats and a building that needs to be fed? No one ages and everyone is healthy but I really don't think I would want to live here.
This book was really original though and aside from the weirdness, I thought it was a fun ride. At least when I knew what the hell was even going on.
(Don't You) Forget About Me is about a girl named Skylar who lives in a small town that's just weird, magical, and cursed. In the town, no one gets sick or dies- of natural causes. People tend to die other ways, mostly on the dreaded 'fourth year' when a teenager blows up and accidentally or intently kills people with bizarre magic. Four years ago, it was Skylar's sister who led classmates to their deaths and since then, Skylar has been in a drug induced haze trying to forget. Until she figures out the only way to get her sister back is to stop the four year cycle and maybe the town itself.
Sometimes you make bad choices to keep yourself from making other, even worse ones. Or at least that’s what I tell myself.
Really though, I'm still not sure of the plot here. It was all over the place. We have the current time but then every other chapter it skips around to three years, six years, four years ago in a second person type narrative to Skylar talking to her sister? I guess?
The town is weird, the drugs are weird, and the magic is weird. We have a main character who spends most of the book forgetting everything because she keeps taking some memory drug and she has powers that aren't explained. We have her sister who is mysterious and special. There's a sort of love interest who yet again, has unexplained powers. People disappear, they kill each other, children get kidnapped by birds, harmful magic dirt, something about rats and a building that needs to be fed? No one ages and everyone is healthy but I really don't think I would want to live here.
This book was really original though and aside from the weirdness, I thought it was a fun ride. At least when I knew what the hell was even going on.