The Book of M review

​A vivid, touching and original debut, following the effects of an extraordinary catastrophe on very ordinary people.
In the middle of a market in India, a man's shadow disappears. As rolling twenty-four-hour news coverage tries to explain the event, more cases are discovered. The phenomenon spreads like a plague as people learn the true cost of their lost part: their memories.
Two years later, Ory and his wife Max have escaped `the Forgetting' by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods in Virgina. They have settled into their new reality, until Max, too, loses her shadow.
Knowing the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to the person most precious to her, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up what little time they have left before she loses her memory completely, and desperately follows her trail.
On their separate journeys, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a mysterious new force growing in the south that may hold the cure. But neither could have guessed at what you gain when you lose your shadow: the power of magic.
A breathtakingly imaginative, timeless story that explores fundamental questions about memory and love-the price of forgetting, the power of connection, and what it means to be human when your world is turned upside down.

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 My review

~I was sent a copy from the publishers - all opinions are my own~

I give it - 5/5

My review - This book was so beautiful, imaginative, and just really unique. 

In this book we get the story from 4 different people. In this world people are starting to loose their shadows and no one knows why this happening and soon after they start to realise that they are loosing their memory as well and forgetting how food keeps you alive and how to make words and these 4 characters are all trying to navigate their lives and also keep an eye on their shadows. 

​This book was beautifully written and the pace of the story was wonderful. It was hard to put it down when I had to go to work or had to sleep. It is a book you just want to keep reading and reading until it's finished and the story will keep with you for a long time after. The writing feels very poetic and it was just was so effortless across the pages and I just found myself so engrossed with the story and the way the author was telling the story. It feels like a fantasy/sci-fi kind of read and the story, the characters and the plot all just blend together nicely and creates this story that you can just easily get wrapped up in. 

Not only is this book wonderful but, it is also terrifying. It has it's creepy moments and parts that just make you feel for these characters and see how dark this story really is. This book takes you on a rollarcoaster of emotions where one moment you are terrified and the next you are so enthralled that even though you feel terrified you can't stop reading. 

This is a book that had me feeling worried towards the end and worried about the characters but, also loving where the story was going and how it was getting played out.

This is a book you need to just jump into and you will be instantly gripped from the beginning and won't be able to put it down until you've finished it because it is just that fantastic you all need to pick it up asap.