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The Memory Book
by Lara Avery
Oh this book has broken my poor, black heart. ITS NOT USED TO THESE FEELINGS!
I honestly don't know how to review this book. I am just shattered.
Note: I do not recommend reading this book in public. You will cry and you will embarrass yourself.
This is the story about Sammie. Sammie is an excellent debater, valedictorian, and NYU bound. But Sammie also has Niemann-Pick Type C. An incurable hereditary disease that was causes dementia. This story is told via letters from present Sammie to future Sammie so she doesn't forget parts of her past.
b>Things I Liked
1. Sammie is absolutely dorky but also relate-able. She struggles with social cues and she'd rather read than go to a party. (Or read at parties. Middle Earth popped up quite a few times.
2. I loved the writing. I was giggling out loud a lot of this book. (HUGE BONUS for an "illness book") But also there are times when the reality of Sammie's situation smacks you in the face and its jarring but amazing.
3. Cooper
4. How accurately dementia is portrayed.
5. Sammie's family
6. Sammie is smart, but not pretentious (unlike another lovable narrator in another "illness book")
7. Cooper :) (I can't end on 6, that's absurd.)
Things I Didn't Like
1. The love-triangle. I am tired of the love-triangle troupe in general.
2. How Maddie threw a fit when she found out Sammie hadn't confided her disease with her right away and basically shut her out for the last month or so of school. Petty much?
3.
Seriously, everyone should read this book and talk to me about it because its beautiful and sad and heartbreaking.
I honestly don't know how to review this book. I am just shattered.
Note: I do not recommend reading this book in public. You will cry and you will embarrass yourself.
This is the story about Sammie. Sammie is an excellent debater, valedictorian, and NYU bound. But Sammie also has Niemann-Pick Type C. An incurable hereditary disease that was causes dementia. This story is told via letters from present Sammie to future Sammie so she doesn't forget parts of her past.
b>Things I Liked
1. Sammie is absolutely dorky but also relate-able. She struggles with social cues and she'd rather read than go to a party. (Or read at parties. Middle Earth popped up quite a few times.
2. I loved the writing. I was giggling out loud a lot of this book. (HUGE BONUS for an "illness book") But also there are times when the reality of Sammie's situation smacks you in the face and its jarring but amazing.
3. Cooper
4. How accurately dementia is portrayed.
5. Sammie's family
6. Sammie is smart, but not pretentious (unlike another lovable narrator in another "illness book")
7. Cooper :) (I can't end on 6, that's absurd.)
Things I Didn't Like
1. The love-triangle. I am tired of the love-triangle troupe in general.
Spoiler
I hated that Sammie cheats on Stuart. I get that she was beginning to have feelings for Cooper while she was with Stuart, but she absolutely should have broken up with him. Cheating is still cheating even if you're in love with person you are cheating with. That said, I do love Cooper and Sammie and I'm glad they ended up together, but I dislike how it happened.2. How Maddie threw a fit when she found out Sammie hadn't confided her disease with her right away and basically shut her out for the last month or so of school. Petty much?
3.
Spoiler
How little Maddie is featured in the story after the incident on graduation night. Where is the female friendship?Seriously, everyone should read this book and talk to me about it because its beautiful and sad and heartbreaking.