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3.5 stars

Memento Nora is a fast past, realistic, dystopian read. Thrown into this dark world Nora has to deal with an uncertain future, and the daily threat of growing violence, and terrorist attacks. So when Nora is offered pills to take to erase her memory you'd think she'd jump at that chance, but wrong. Nora doesn't want to forget, anything. In fact she teams up with Micah (whom I adored) to create Memento, illustrated stories of what's going on around them.

While I didn't really connect with the characters, I liked that Angie tells the story through not only Nora's point of view, but from Micah and his friend Winter. This allowed me to see the story build and see what was happening from various angles. Each of the characters are different, coming from various backgrounds, and each adds something unique to the story. I like that they all have their flaws which makes them likable and in some way relatable. I loved that each chapter is like a journal entry from either Micah, Nora or Winter. My favorite character is Micah and I enjoyed the relationship the grows between him and Nora.

I liked that Micah and Nora teamed together to create Memento, which inspires others to find their voices, but with any movement it brings danger and now Micah, Nora and Winter must decide what their next move is as the government wants to find out who's behind the Mementos. I think this a great debut from Angie and being less than 200 pages, Memento Nora is a quick, engaging read.


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Memento Nora Angie Smibert Books Reviews

Times have gotten hard in America and that's why people need the Therapeutic Forgetting Clinics. One little pill makes all your terrible memories of this or that bombing disappear. You can even make other bad memories vanish if you choose. During Nora's first trip her mother reveals a big secret memory that she wants to forget. Nora decides that it's better to remember, so she spits out her pill when no one is looking. She got this idea from a kid she say before going in with her mother. This boy turns into a friend and co-conspirator to spread the truth and help people remember.

This was a fun little novel. It was fast paced and an interesting concept. I really liked the story line and am eager to see what happens next.

Nora, Micah and Winter are an unlikely trio. Micah and Winter make sense, but Nora in the equation just doesn't add up. I never got a good sense of what kind of a person she was. She seemed very artificial at times, but then she's all underground rebel. It just didn't feel natural and it put me off a bit. I really enjoyed Micah though. He was a really great character.

This was a quick futuristic read. The plot was the focus so the character development and world-building fell a bit by the way side. It was definitely interesting enough that I'm eager to read the next two in this series.

First Line
"I'm about to forget everything I'm going to tell you."

Favorite Line
"Okay, Dad is definitely a creep, but he's my creep."
Before I really get going on my review, I think I should let you know what my students think. They’re the target audience, so their thoughts count the most in my opinion! My students are interviewing Angie for my Students Want to Know feature, and I received a few ARCs from a publicist for them to read before asking questions. I handed the ARCs out to my freshmen to read before me. Wow! After a couple freshmen in my 1st hour read it, they couldn’t stop talking about it. “Is there going to be a second one?!” “Oh my gosh, the ending?! Wow!” “We should read this as a class, Mrs. Andersen.” So yeah, my students positively LOVE Memento Nora. And these excited students were actually some of my quieter kids in class.

Many times while reading this I thought of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series. This story isn’t nearly as futuristic, but there are some similar properties like society being overly consumer-driven and forced to forget certain memories. Honestly, I enjoyed Memento Nora ten times more than the Uglies series. I turned bored quickly with that series. I don’t see myself getting bored with Angie’s stories because she’s edgier, a smart writer, and she’s developed great characters!

One of the things my students and I both like is the underground comic. My kids really got on board with this and even said they could picture kids doing that in our school. I do wish that we could actually see some of the comics while reading–it’d be so cool to see what Micah draws!

This is a really smart book that will hook readers right away. Would you take the little white pill to forget a painful memory? It’d be tempting, I’m sure. But then who would we be without our painful memories? Don’t we learn from those? The world can’t be “glossy” all the time, and this is something that Norah, Micah and Winter understand. My students wanted to discuss whether this sort of thing could happen in the future, considering the War on Terror.

The story is told effortlessly from all three points of view, which gives us a good grasp of who each character is. We read mostly from Norah’s perspective which I like because she’s new to the Memento comic scene, so we learn about it with her.

If you’re a fan of the dystopian genre, make sure to add Memento Nora to your to read list. It’s a thought-provoking, exciting story that teens and adults alike are sure to enjoy!
3.5 stars

Memento Nora is a fast past, realistic, dystopian read. Thrown into this dark world Nora has to deal with an uncertain future, and the daily threat of growing violence, and terrorist attacks. So when Nora is offered pills to take to erase her memory you'd think she'd jump at that chance, but wrong. Nora doesn't want to forget, anything. In fact she teams up with Micah (whom I adored) to create Memento, illustrated stories of what's going on around them.

While I didn't really connect with the characters, I liked that Angie tells the story through not only Nora's point of view, but from Micah and his friend Winter. This allowed me to see the story build and see what was happening from various angles. Each of the characters are different, coming from various backgrounds, and each adds something unique to the story. I like that they all have their flaws which makes them likable and in some way relatable. I loved that each chapter is like a journal entry from either Micah, Nora or Winter. My favorite character is Micah and I enjoyed the relationship the grows between him and Nora.

I liked that Micah and Nora teamed together to create Memento, which inspires others to find their voices, but with any movement it brings danger and now Micah, Nora and Winter must decide what their next move is as the government wants to find out who's behind the Mementos. I think this a great debut from Angie and being less than 200 pages, Memento Nora is a quick, engaging read.