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DID NOT FINISH: 31%
Prefacing this with that I DNF'd at 31%. The concept of memory sharing seemed interesting as hell which is why I requested the ARC. When I got it, I'll be honest. It took me a while to even get through the first portion. The boy at the beginning is giving a message to everyone letting them know the memories he was sharing were from his mother; that he wanted to share them all before they were edited and/or removed for being illegal banned memories. The book is apparently a collection of connected stories all related to different banned memories.
While the story I read was the Arc, it jumps through POVs too much. One chapter will start talking At you, or the Qin Audience, in 2nd person. "For the next minute, listen to my voice as we prepare you for your upcoming experience." The next paragraph will shift to 3rd person as it tells you a small story and slowly shift into using first person pronouns for the descriptions before another page goes by and its suddenly referring to you - the reader/Qin audience - again. It's personally very disorienting.
After that chapter, we're given a "viral memory" and then another message from the boy at the beginning. I don't believe we ever meet the same characters twice aside from the boy with no name from the beginning; I believe that's a downside of these types of stories. The collection of stories aren't long enough to give me any connection to the characters aside from one that I don't even have a name of that occasionally pops in to talk directly to the reader/audience. It makes me less likely to enjoy the story, the characters are a spill of water. I know nothing of them and therefore their struggles and such aren't enough to make me concerned or find a way to connect with them. Perhaps I'll try to re-read this later and I'll adjust my review then but for now, it's not gonna be finished.
Thank you Netgalley for an ARC of this book.