![]() ![]() Seeing her flaws and worries furthers the story along in both areas, and her growing romance is actually spectacularly cute. Alana always feels like a real teenage girl, and an actual person, and her personal highs and lows and obstacles don't drag down the greater story or feel off kilter with them. Yet at the same time, this book manages to keep its humanity down to earth. This book is, in places, a ghost story, and the ghosts refuse to let you forget it. I though the balance struck between unearthly danger and chiding companion was pretty much perfect, and as we see more of her existence throughout the book, it only becomes a better contrast.Īnd with that, I absolutely loved how geuinely unsettling this was! The danger of a monster on the loose was never toned down, even as things get called into question, and the delicate tightrope Alana has to walk is a continually high stake that only makes the more supernatural elements pop even worse. Her design is phenomenal- a two story long creature made of the imprint of faces, whose own face is a mask? Incredible design! But even beyond how cool she looked, I adored the concept of her, and the almost mundane way she was accepted as art of the set dressing, until people had to remember to be afraid. I want to say first, how much I loved everything about the Memory Eater herself. I knew I would like this book, because of how much I liked Mahoney's debut, but I was blown away with how much I loved this book! From the atmosphere to the theme to the "monster" to the actual storyline, there is nothing here I don't love. TW: child abandonment, toxic parent, implied manipulative relationships But as Alana delves deeper into her family’s magic and the history of her town, she discovers a shocking secret at the center of the Harlow family business and learns that tampering with memories never comes without a price. Alana’s mistake could cost Whistler Beach everything-unless she can figure out how to retrieve her own memories and recapture the monster. And with them, she’s lost the knowledge of how to keep the monster contained. But there’s something Alana doesn’t know: the strange gaps in her memory aren’t from an accident. And for generations, the Harlows have been in charge of keeping her locked up-and keeping her fed.Īfter her grandmother dies, seventeen-year-old Alana Harlow inherits the family business. A teenage girl must save her town from a memory-devouring monster in this piercing exploration of grief, trauma, and memory, from the author of The Valley and the Flood.įor generations, a monster called the Memory Eater has lived in the caves of Whistler Beach, Maine, surviving off the unhappy memories of those who want to forget. ![]()
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