The Book of M
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The Book of M
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Narrated by:
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James Fouhey
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Emily Woo Zeller
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By:
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Peng Shepherd
About this listen
Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe, risking everything to save the ones they love.
In the middle of a market in India, a man’s shadow disappears. This mysterious phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories.
Two years later, Ory and Max have escaped the Forgetting by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears.
Knowing that her condition makes her dangerous, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memories disappear, he sets out into a perilous, unrecognizable world.
©2018 Peng Shepherd (P)2018 HarperCollins PublishersCritic Reviews
"Graceful and riveting." (Publishers Weekly)
"A voice that's as emotionally compelling as Gone Girl, a novel that's as thrilling as The Stand. Prepare to fall in love with your own shadow. And to lose sleep." (David Lipsky, New York Times best-selling author of Although of Course You End up Becoming Yourself and Absolutely American)
"The Book of M is exciting, imaginative, unique, and beautiful. Shepherd proves herself not just a writer to watch, but a writer to treasure." (Darin Strauss, best-selling author of Half a Life)
If I was reading it in print I would have skimmed the rest. In an audiobook it was painful until I realised that I could listen at a faster speed.
Really interesting concept, but the writing becomes tedious and predictable.
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The plot holes are massive, like how did Naz’s sister arrive from Tehran in a world where air travel would be impossible, to find her in a downtown industrial area of America which she had never seen or visited before. Maybe she flew in on a magical elephant who paint and read minds?
The borrowing from other sources was also very apparent. Echoes of “The Stand” and “Swan Song” with the spiritual quest; flashes of “His Dark Materials” and the loss of the shadow like the detrimental severing of the dæmon; roving gangs of violent marauders like any post-apocalyptic adventure (“The Road”, “Mountain Man Series”); Katniss from the Hunger Games appears as Naz, the arrow wielding assassin; and who could forget the nod to Ghostbusters with the Statue of Liberty episode.
I had high hopes, I wanted it to be good. Now I want to unlisten to it, return it, and get my credit back.
It started so well... if 2020 was a book...
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