VERDICT Teens who enjoy engrossing, contemplative titles such as Adam Silvera’s More Happy Than Not will devour this insightful musing on memory and identity.
What is the link between identity and memory? Are we better off without painful remembrances? As the book concludes, characters-and readers-will still be contemplating these challenging questions. However, this is no mere thriller folded into this compulsively readable work are thought-provoking themes. The prose has a sense of urgency, and brief chapters will keep teens turning the pages. Depicting characters with few memories, Altebrando has effectively established an often eerie and unsettling mood, and the creative use of typography adds to the feeling of disorientation. Were they kidnapped? Abducted by aliens? Were they victims of some psychological experiment? Readers follow Lucas and Scarlett, who suspect that they might have had a romantic relationship in the past, and Avery, Max’s younger sister, who clings to the hope that her brother will return and who finds herself drawn to Lucas, as the teens try to piece together just what happened and why. Though Lucas, Scarlett, Kristen, Adam, and Sarah operate on a developmentally appropriate level (speaking, reading, and writing like typical adolescents), they have no memory of anything from the last 11 years-and no explanation of why Max, who also left, isn’t with them.
Eleven years later, five of the kids, now teenagers, return, but the mysteries have only multiplied. Gr 8 Up –One day, six kindergarteners disappear without a trace. In her remembrance, we share recent YA thrillers that share the same suspense, plot twists, and unforgettable characters that Duncan is celebrated for.Īltebrando, Tara. Griffin (1978), and Daughters of Eve (1979), has created a void in the YA lit world that will be difficult to fill. The passing of Margaret Edwards Award winner Lois Duncan, the creator of gems like I Know What You Did Last Summer (1973), Killing Mr. The queen of the teen thriller died on June 15, and the YA world will never be the same.
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