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A review by jenbsbooks
Deleted by Ruth Mitchell
3.0
I'm not totally sure how I felt about this one. I received the audiobook free in exchange for an honest review, and honestly, this might have been a DNF if I hadn't felt obligated to finish. I am glad I did though, as I did end up liking it. I think ;) It had some very interesting things to think about.
I don't currently have a KU subscription, or I think I would have checked out the Kindle copy, reviewing in print some of what I listened to. Sometimes I can pin point things better when I can examine the text rather than just listening. That being said, The narration was good. Young sounding, like the MC, just some things didn't seem to flow to audio that well and I would have liked to see how they were presented in print. In italics, when it's more a thought? Sometimes that's hard to get across in audio. At times I wasn't sure who was talking, and if they were talking or just thinking. All the chapters started with quotes (from Walden, Paradise Lost) and again, listening I wasn't sure if this was the story, a character talking ... oh no, it's a quote (I grew to anticipate that they were quotes at the start of each chapter). Reading, seeing it was a quote would be obvious.
The year is 2044 - so a futuristic setting. Everyone (well, almost everyone) wears "specs" which can provide oodles of information to the "mind's eye" ... of course, with all things digital, things can be hacked, and a few people have figured out how to ERASE memories.
In this futuristic setting, I found it a little odd when the word "fancies" (as in, he likes you, he "fancies" you). That seems all old West, "Oklahoma" to me, not futuristic. It was used twice and both times brought me up short. A lot of the conversation just seemed unnatural, stilted. When they are watching a "memory" and it's in Spanish, Marco says he can't speak it but can understand it (okay, that could work) but when he says (paraphrasing from memory) "he IS a bad guy! The drug dealers offered him MUCHO DINERO and he wants more" ... just a corny conversation. A lot of it felt a bit silly and over the top.
But it was an interesting idea and did make me think about a few things ... if you do a bad thing and no one remembers/knows, is it still bad? The part where the husband is always telling a bad joke, so the wife erases it from his memory, but he hears it and likes it so much and starts telling it again. I think I laughed out loud ;)
I adore the cover!
I don't currently have a KU subscription, or I think I would have checked out the Kindle copy, reviewing in print some of what I listened to. Sometimes I can pin point things better when I can examine the text rather than just listening. That being said, The narration was good. Young sounding, like the MC, just some things didn't seem to flow to audio that well and I would have liked to see how they were presented in print. In italics, when it's more a thought? Sometimes that's hard to get across in audio. At times I wasn't sure who was talking, and if they were talking or just thinking. All the chapters started with quotes (from Walden, Paradise Lost) and again, listening I wasn't sure if this was the story, a character talking ... oh no, it's a quote (I grew to anticipate that they were quotes at the start of each chapter). Reading, seeing it was a quote would be obvious.
The year is 2044 - so a futuristic setting. Everyone (well, almost everyone) wears "specs" which can provide oodles of information to the "mind's eye" ... of course, with all things digital, things can be hacked, and a few people have figured out how to ERASE memories.
In this futuristic setting, I found it a little odd when the word "fancies" (as in, he likes you, he "fancies" you). That seems all old West, "Oklahoma" to me, not futuristic. It was used twice and both times brought me up short. A lot of the conversation just seemed unnatural, stilted. When they are watching a "memory" and it's in Spanish, Marco says he can't speak it but can understand it (okay, that could work) but when he says (paraphrasing from memory) "he IS a bad guy! The drug dealers offered him MUCHO DINERO and he wants more" ... just a corny conversation. A lot of it felt a bit silly and over the top.
But it was an interesting idea and did make me think about a few things ... if you do a bad thing and no one remembers/knows, is it still bad? The part where the husband is always telling a bad joke, so the wife erases it from his memory, but he hears it and likes it so much and starts telling it again. I think I laughed out loud ;)
I adore the cover!