The Sudden Appearance of Hope, (Paperback)

from tuusannuuska

4,1 stars It took me a month to read this book, which sums up why this wasn't a five star read for me. I enjoyed the plot and I think the themes in this book were fascinating while quite creepy in their plausibility. (I have serious misgivings of having ever installed Facebook Messenger on my ...

from tjsjohanna

Wow! The story was interesting but the thoughts, the commentary, the exploration of media and social pressure and what it means to be human and how we develop identity... all that is explored through the concept of someone who is unnaturally forgettable. Well done.

from RandyMetcalfe

Hope Arden is brilliant, esoterically beautiful, athletic, audacious, daring, and kind, in her way. She'd make a wonderful friend or jewel thief. The fact that she chose the latter has a lot to do with her condition, which makes friendships inevitably temporary. People forget Hope. All people. He...

from cindywho

Claire's inability to be remembered is a strange and frightening state. She must steal to live without any lasting human connection and the story starts with a jewel heist. Going deeper into her psyche is a whirl of thought techniques that help keep her sane (somewhat) and those to do want to kee...

from quondame

Another exploration trough a preposterous what if, this one being what if there a very few individuals whose personal interactions with others are erased from memory withing a minute such a person being out of sight - literally out of sight, never was in mind. Issues of who you are if you are fre...