Friday, February 4, 2011

Persistence of Memory


Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
212 pages

Persistence of Memory centers around Erin a teenager who has spent most of her life thinking she's crazy. Much of her time has been spent in psychiatric hospitals or being monitored by doctors but now she's getting better. Then out of nowhere she starts to slide back into madness having memories of a different life and waking up in another person's body. This other person is Shevaun a vampire who doesn't like that Erin can get in her thoughts. How can Erin do these things and if she was ever crazy are just two questions that come up in this story that the reader begs to have answered.
With books by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes I tend to either really like it or dislike it, there isn't much middle ground. Sadly Persistence of Memory is one that I didn't really like. It has an interesting story that could have been really great but gets cut short. It takes most of the book just to discover what is going on and in a few more pages it is over. It seems like the publisher only wanted so many pages and when the author got close to that number she just stopped. The beginning is pretty slow too. If you want to read some of her books try Hawksong or Midnight Predator but don't waste your time on this one.

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