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marilynw 's review for:
The Memory Collectors
by Kim Neville
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The Memory Collectors by Dete Meserve
Narrated by Andrew Eiden, Erin Bennett, Hillary Huber, Michael Crouch
What if you could go back to the past for ONE hour? Maybe see someone you have lost forever, hold them, talk to them, be with them. Or maybe have a chance to go back before you did something very, very bad. Maybe have a chance to do something differently even if it was for just one hour and wouldn't "stick" when you went forward to the present again. Would you do it, would you want to do it?
Four strangers get this chance and then there is a glitch. These strangers have gone back in time to the same town, on the same date, and their lives are intertwined in ways they never imagined. Aeon Expeditions is the reason this can happen, the inventor has found a way to send people back for one hour. Going back and doing something differently won't change the future no matter how much each person might hope they could do so. But at least they have that one hour. Until there is a glitch and they get a lot more than one hour. If only they could stay where they are in the past and relive and change what happens back then, they'd give anything to do just that.
As these four travelers get to "overstay" their time, they each see the potential of maybe changing what happened before. To stop something bad happening, to never do the bad thing that happened, to maybe keep hold of someone they would never let go of if they had the chance. And these people realize they have already been in each other's lives before. This is not the first time they have met.
I don't think I'd want to go back but if I did go back, without thinking too hard about more lofty goals, I'd love to spend another hour with my horse that is gone now and with my tiny full grown cat that is also gone. Of course, thinking even further, there are people I'd want to spend time with again. But really, I'm not sure I would want to go back for just an hour, it seems like it'd hurt too much when that hour was over. These four people did want to go back, though. They paid a huge amount of money to do so, getting picked to go back was practically a miracle for each one of them, it shouldn't be them going back but something or someone has made it happen.
There are four different narrators for the four POVs of the stories and that helps to define each person. There is loss and I could not help wanting there to be permanent change from the time in the past. I won't say what happens, I won't say if I got what I wanted, but the story, the mysteries, and the events once again make an impact on each person and those who know them in the future. It's a very well told story and gave me a lot to think about. Maybe we can't really go back but at least we can see things differently anyway.
Thanks to my library and Libby for this audiobook.
Narrated by Andrew Eiden, Erin Bennett, Hillary Huber, Michael Crouch
What if you could go back to the past for ONE hour? Maybe see someone you have lost forever, hold them, talk to them, be with them. Or maybe have a chance to go back before you did something very, very bad. Maybe have a chance to do something differently even if it was for just one hour and wouldn't "stick" when you went forward to the present again. Would you do it, would you want to do it?
Four strangers get this chance and then there is a glitch. These strangers have gone back in time to the same town, on the same date, and their lives are intertwined in ways they never imagined. Aeon Expeditions is the reason this can happen, the inventor has found a way to send people back for one hour. Going back and doing something differently won't change the future no matter how much each person might hope they could do so. But at least they have that one hour. Until there is a glitch and they get a lot more than one hour. If only they could stay where they are in the past and relive and change what happens back then, they'd give anything to do just that.
As these four travelers get to "overstay" their time, they each see the potential of maybe changing what happened before. To stop something bad happening, to never do the bad thing that happened, to maybe keep hold of someone they would never let go of if they had the chance. And these people realize they have already been in each other's lives before. This is not the first time they have met.
I don't think I'd want to go back but if I did go back, without thinking too hard about more lofty goals, I'd love to spend another hour with my horse that is gone now and with my tiny full grown cat that is also gone. Of course, thinking even further, there are people I'd want to spend time with again. But really, I'm not sure I would want to go back for just an hour, it seems like it'd hurt too much when that hour was over. These four people did want to go back, though. They paid a huge amount of money to do so, getting picked to go back was practically a miracle for each one of them, it shouldn't be them going back but something or someone has made it happen.
There are four different narrators for the four POVs of the stories and that helps to define each person. There is loss and I could not help wanting there to be permanent change from the time in the past. I won't say what happens, I won't say if I got what I wanted, but the story, the mysteries, and the events once again make an impact on each person and those who know them in the future. It's a very well told story and gave me a lot to think about. Maybe we can't really go back but at least we can see things differently anyway.
Thanks to my library and Libby for this audiobook.