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Beschreibung
And sometimes there isn't.
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
June, 1993. Claire has been dumped in rural Indianola, Texas, to spend her whole vacation taking care of mean, sickly Grammy. There's nothing too remarkable about Indianola: it's run-down, shabby, and sweltering, a pin-dot on the Gulf Coast.
Except there is something remarkable. Memories shimmer and change. Lizards whisper riddles under the pecan trees. People disappear as if they never existed. Yesterday keeps coming unspooled, like a video tape. And worst of all, a red-lightning storm from beyond our world may just wipe the whole town off the map, if Claire and her maybe-girlfriend Julie can't stop it.
Because reality doesn't apply in Indianola. Indianola is not supposed to exist.
Surprising, brilliant, and, like, totally tight, Forget This Ever Happened is speculative horror at its finest, featuring a queer romance from a Pushcart Prize-nominated queer author and dark, dazzling world-building.
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Is it magical realism? Science-Fiction? Fantasy? A horror story? Ultimately Forget This Ever Happened doesn't really know what it's trying to be. While filled with two likable main characters and a sweet queer romance that wasn't enough to sustain the flimsy plot. In Forget This Ever Happened Claire has to spend her summer helping out her sick grumpy grandmother in Indianola. She misses Josh, the boy she has started falling for and isn't happy to get dragged away from. Claire sees her whole summer draining away, helping her grammy clean the house and cooking for her. But then she meets Audrey and Julie and strange things start happening around her that she can't explain... While Clarke's prose is easy to breeze through, it occasionally was a bit awkward (parts of it could be due to the ARC nature of the copy I read). She does a good job at creating a creepy atmosphere while romantic situations fall kind of flat. Clarke has created two likable characters in Claire and Julie but I would have liked them to be a bit more headstrong which sadly isn't really possible with the nature and details of the story. While I found the mysterious element of the book interesting, it simply lacked depth for me. I wanted more information about the science (fantasy?) system at work here but sadly Clarke took the easy way out and didn't deliver any details or background on it. And I didn't enjoy being kept in the dark and feeling as fuzzy as Claire did throughout the book. If you like being kept in the dark almost the whole way through, enjoy creepy YA stories and/or queer romances Forget This Ever Happened might be for you. Disclaimer: An advanced review copy was provided by the publisher through Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
Beschreibung
And sometimes there isn't.
A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
June, 1993. Claire has been dumped in rural Indianola, Texas, to spend her whole vacation taking care of mean, sickly Grammy. There's nothing too remarkable about Indianola: it's run-down, shabby, and sweltering, a pin-dot on the Gulf Coast.
Except there is something remarkable. Memories shimmer and change. Lizards whisper riddles under the pecan trees. People disappear as if they never existed. Yesterday keeps coming unspooled, like a video tape. And worst of all, a red-lightning storm from beyond our world may just wipe the whole town off the map, if Claire and her maybe-girlfriend Julie can't stop it.
Because reality doesn't apply in Indianola. Indianola is not supposed to exist.
Surprising, brilliant, and, like, totally tight, Forget This Ever Happened is speculative horror at its finest, featuring a queer romance from a Pushcart Prize-nominated queer author and dark, dazzling world-building.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
Is it magical realism? Science-Fiction? Fantasy? A horror story? Ultimately Forget This Ever Happened doesn't really know what it's trying to be. While filled with two likable main characters and a sweet queer romance that wasn't enough to sustain the flimsy plot. In Forget This Ever Happened Claire has to spend her summer helping out her sick grumpy grandmother in Indianola. She misses Josh, the boy she has started falling for and isn't happy to get dragged away from. Claire sees her whole summer draining away, helping her grammy clean the house and cooking for her. But then she meets Audrey and Julie and strange things start happening around her that she can't explain... While Clarke's prose is easy to breeze through, it occasionally was a bit awkward (parts of it could be due to the ARC nature of the copy I read). She does a good job at creating a creepy atmosphere while romantic situations fall kind of flat. Clarke has created two likable characters in Claire and Julie but I would have liked them to be a bit more headstrong which sadly isn't really possible with the nature and details of the story. While I found the mysterious element of the book interesting, it simply lacked depth for me. I wanted more information about the science (fantasy?) system at work here but sadly Clarke took the easy way out and didn't deliver any details or background on it. And I didn't enjoy being kept in the dark and feeling as fuzzy as Claire did throughout the book. If you like being kept in the dark almost the whole way through, enjoy creepy YA stories and/or queer romances Forget This Ever Happened might be for you. Disclaimer: An advanced review copy was provided by the publisher through Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.