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Making Memory
IN 1940 GERMAN sCIENTISTS WONDERED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF THEY MIXED GENETIC MODIFCATION AND MAGIC IN EMBRYOS. TODAY THEY FOUND OUT!
Born to a destiny she never wanted-a destiny that could change Earth as we know it. After six years in the California Child Protective Services care, Memory's worst nightmare comes to pass when she is jerked away from her California foster home and sent across the country to live with mysterious relatives in the mountains of North Georgia. But Winters Cove was hiding secrets about her family no one wants to get out. Once she arrives, Memory learns information that could shift her belief in everything she'd always thought the truth. The only people she can trust to help her unravel the decades' old mystery and piece together the dangerous puzzle, are her distant cousins Crystal and Cody. As she seeks to discover the source of her burgeoning powers and discover what lies beneath the betrayals, she discovers she is a pawn in a dangerous game. A game in which the rules keep changing. Luckily for her, not following the rules has never been a problem. She was never supposed to be found. Now she's a target. And as her sixteenth birthday nears, she realizes her time is running out. An Urban Fantasy with a twist, Making Memory combines just enough magic to modern Science Fiction to bring forth a believable story of what could happen when genetic manipulation goes right.
Born to a destiny she never wanted-a destiny that could change Earth as we know it. After six years in the California Child Protective Services care, Memory's worst nightmare comes to pass when she is jerked away from her California foster home and sent across the country to live with mysterious relatives in the mountains of North Georgia. But Winters Cove was hiding secrets about her family no one wants to get out. Once she arrives, Memory learns information that could shift her belief in everything she'd always thought the truth. The only people she can trust to help her unravel the decades' old mystery and piece together the dangerous puzzle, are her distant cousins Crystal and Cody. As she seeks to discover the source of her burgeoning powers and discover what lies beneath the betrayals, she discovers she is a pawn in a dangerous game. A game in which the rules keep changing. Luckily for her, not following the rules has never been a problem. She was never supposed to be found. Now she's a target. And as her sixteenth birthday nears, she realizes her time is running out. An Urban Fantasy with a twist, Making Memory combines just enough magic to modern Science Fiction to bring forth a believable story of what could happen when genetic manipulation goes right.
316 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2021
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February 16, 2025
This must be one of those freebee digital books that I got from one of the many email book sources that I get. I don't recall anything about it being an ARC or unedited preview, or anything like that, but this book does not seem to have been edited at all.
There were so many errors in it that I stopped counting, and eventually stopped marking them. There were apostrophe abuses galore, and even those were inconsistent. Sometimes, the author would use apostrophes for plurals, and sometimes they wouldn't. There were quite a few typos in the digital edition that I read, as well.
Then there was the number of times that the POV just changed out of nowhere. The bulk of the book is in first person perspective from the perspective of Memory, the main character. There are occasions where the POV shifts to one of the other characters. They are rare, but they happen. But there are also times when, mid-paragraph, it unexplainedly changes from "I" to "she," and then back again. I see these, also, as things that should have been captured during editing, which seems to not have happened in this edition.
The story, itself, isn't bad, and the concept of the story is actually fairly interesting. For me, though, it takes way too long to get around to what is so mysterious about this family and their offspring. The most unbelievable part was when this sixteen-year old girl suddenly becomes an expert on anatomy, as she is using her newfound powers to heal a burn victim.
The book is mildly entertaining, which is the only reason I finished it. I see that the author has quite a few more books on the Goodreads page, so I have to hope that they are better than this one. I honestly couldn't recommend this to anyone.
There were so many errors in it that I stopped counting, and eventually stopped marking them. There were apostrophe abuses galore, and even those were inconsistent. Sometimes, the author would use apostrophes for plurals, and sometimes they wouldn't. There were quite a few typos in the digital edition that I read, as well.
Then there was the number of times that the POV just changed out of nowhere. The bulk of the book is in first person perspective from the perspective of Memory, the main character. There are occasions where the POV shifts to one of the other characters. They are rare, but they happen. But there are also times when, mid-paragraph, it unexplainedly changes from "I" to "she," and then back again. I see these, also, as things that should have been captured during editing, which seems to not have happened in this edition.
The story, itself, isn't bad, and the concept of the story is actually fairly interesting. For me, though, it takes way too long to get around to what is so mysterious about this family and their offspring. The most unbelievable part was when this sixteen-year old girl suddenly becomes an expert on anatomy, as she is using her newfound powers to heal a burn victim.
The book is mildly entertaining, which is the only reason I finished it. I see that the author has quite a few more books on the Goodreads page, so I have to hope that they are better than this one. I honestly couldn't recommend this to anyone.
October 1, 2023
Great fast read
I read this all today and really enjoyed the plot and the characters. The fast pace was easy to follow and the story was very believable
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I read this all today and really enjoyed the plot and the characters. The fast pace was easy to follow and the story was very believable
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September 23, 2019
Never thought about this until i read the book. Makes you think. Fast read. Good story
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