A debut novel that has you by the throat from the beginning. Emma wakes up in a hospital with absolutely no memory. She doesn't even know this man who claims to be her husband. And these dreams that haunt her. They aren't nightmares but they still bother her and haunt her constantly. Her husband Declan very patiently begins to teach her about their lives together and what she is capable of doing. Before long Emma is home from the hospital, painting glorious landscapes and exercising with long punishing runs. But there is a voice that warns her not to talk about her dreams or are they memories? Emma isn't sure who or what to trust and starts to find answers to her questions. She isn't sure what is reality and those answers only seem to be confusing everything.
This book is set in one possible future. Women are a rare commodity and the birth rate is falling off drastically. There has been a war and the United States had been divided in two: West is the free zone and the East is a policed society where women/young girls are put in work camps. The more Emma begins to remember the more the tension is wound tighter and tighter. The plot pulls you along and the pages just keep turning faster and faster. There is some language but not off-putting. There is a sex scene or two between Emma and her husband. All together this is something anyone can read - I even thing Young Adults might like it.
Six degrees of Reading: My Real Children by Jo Walton, Lock In by John Scalzi, Clone Three by Patti Larsen.
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