English language
Published Nov. 18, 2019 by ISIS.
Emmett Farmer is working in the fields when a letter arrives summoning him to begin an apprenticeship. He will work for a book binder, a vocation that arouses fear, superstition and prejudice - but one neither he nor his parents can afford to refuse. He will learn to hand-craft beautiful volumes, and within each he will capture something unique and extraordinary: a memory. If there's something you want to forget, he can help. Your past will be stored safely in a book and you will never remember your secret, however terrible. In a vault under his mentor's workshop, row upon row of books - and memories - are meticulously stored and recorded. Then one day Emmett makes an astonishing discovery: one of them has his name on it ...
Interesting premise but fails to deliver
An interesting premise and alternate world but ultimately this is used to deliver a ho-hum story of star-crossed love. Disappointing.
The change of pace in the second, flash-back part; followed by the change in narrator for the third made the book feel even more disjointed.
