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Memory Child eBook Lynnette Spratley

I really enjoyed this book. I thought it was well written. The character and story-line development was great. It made me think of how I would react and survive in such a world created by the author. Real quick, the world as we know it no longer exists. Floods, rains and mudslides have wipe out 99% of the world. Technology is lost. People gather into groups such as Tanners, Harvesters, Builders, Merchants, etc.. There are no cities or towns. People have lost all knowledge of the past except one group of genetically enhanced individuals. They are known as the Preservationists who's goal is to pass on key knowledge each one has. The key character of the book was a Historian. One problem. The Preservationists are stalked by the Myths who hunt and "cleanse" them (kill). So they must live among the morons and pass their knowledge down through there kids until a time when the world will begin to rebuild itself. A good story. BUT it doesn't end with this book. I'm reading just when the big showdown with the Myths is about to happen and the book ends. I was pissed!!! Why do writers do this. They take their cue from Hollywood I guess. Will I read the next sequal? I don't know. Maybe, when my anger subsides. I have to take a full star away. Otherwise this was a solid 4 star+ book.


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Memory Child eBook Lynnette Spratley Reviews

I liked the plot even though it was a little drawn out. I don't ordinarily read romances, and I got tired of Race's selfishness. I didn't see much to love about the man. Scattered throughout the story are commentaries about society and environmental issues, which are a little preachy. The ending was abrupt, leading into the sequel(s). For a free book, it was okay. I probably wouldn't buy the sequel.
I had real problems with the writing at times. At one point the hero's eyebrows get raised like caterpillars racing up a tree. Really? There were also some real inconsistencies with some of the characterizations. We are told repeatedly what a genius the heroine is, yet there is so much she doesn't notice or can't figure out even though she is also considered to be exceptionally curious. Perhaps she just has a really good memory, but we are told (never shown by any evidence in the story itself) that she has a super high IQ. I kept waiting for her to use it at least once or twice, even in a way that didn't matter much to the story, but I can't remember even one incident where she did. Sometimes, she was treated as humorously naive, and she shouldn't have been if she had the intelligence she was supposed to have had. I could never get passed this problem. Also, the character of Race is very inconsistent - cold one minute and overly solicitous the next. The time sequence is not very well laid out. I had to work to figure out how much time had passed.
********SPOILER ALERT (I guess.)********** Finally, the book ends just as we reach the climax. All that buildup, and then it drops off.

I like to give indie writers a break, especially on early efforts. But when they have received so many positive and very generous reviews, it does seem like a dose of reality is needed.
Author Lynnette Spratley has penned a compelling novel about a frightening futuristic world. Shelana is a descendant of genetically enhanced people known as Preservationists, but intelligence is being stamped out by a bloodthirsty group called the Myths. Shelana, alone after her family is killed, needs to survive in this barren, brutal environment. Can Shelana live long enough to seek revenge on Vernon, the leader of the Myths? The world Spratley has created is realistic enough to make you shiver!! I look forward to her next book.
I couldn't even finish this book. There are too many inconsistencies and plot holes in the first few chapters that they completely destroyed any enjoyment for this story I might have had. By the time the main character/narrator got to discussing her genetic makeup in Chapter 5, that was too much for me. The story is supposed to be taking place many centuries in the future, and yet somehow her family's features only come from one couple in the distant past? That would suggest a lot of inbreeding, but the narrator made it a point of saying that her people, the Presers, deliberately breed with people of lower intelligence to hopefully spread the intelligence around.
Which brings me to my next problem, the very premise of the story. The author sets up the world in such a way that one person, Noah Eastermann, saw what was going to happen and decided to gather the top scientists in the world and used genetic engineering to create people of super intelligence, so that over the centuries their intellect could be diluted and spread amongst the people through breeding. This is a horribly inefficient way of preserving or restarting civilization.
There are many more problems I have with this story, and it's one of those situations where a lot of small problems add up to one really big problem. I wish I could have liked this story. I tried to like this story. But five chapters in and the problems were just too frustrating to get over.
I got this book for free and was generally not expecting much in the way of quality. I am pleased to say that I was wrong to think so.

This book is a stunningly well-done post apocalyptic tale, in which society has evolved into tribes of nomadic hunter and gatherers, interspersed with the 'morons' or unenhanced humans are the preservationists, genetically enhanced humans whose job it is to remember certain parts of human knowlege so that it will not be lost forever. The central character is Shelana of the Thunderhorse tribe who is a historian. Set against the preservationists are the myth who are a group who persecute and kill their opponants, seemingly in mindless slaughter.

I read through the entire book in one sitting, over about eight hours and was wrapped up in the story the entire time.
I really enjoyed this book. I thought it was well written. The character and story-line development was great. It made me think of how I would react and survive in such a world created by the author. Real quick, the world as we know it no longer exists. Floods, rains and mudslides have wipe out 99% of the world. Technology is lost. People gather into groups such as Tanners, Harvesters, Builders, Merchants, etc.. There are no cities or towns. People have lost all knowledge of the past except one group of genetically enhanced individuals. They are known as the Preservationists who's goal is to pass on key knowledge each one has. The key character of the book was a Historian. One problem. The Preservationists are stalked by the Myths who hunt and "cleanse" them (kill). So they must live among the morons and pass their knowledge down through there kids until a time when the world will begin to rebuild itself. A good story. BUT it doesn't end with this book. I'm reading just when the big showdown with the Myths is about to happen and the book ends. I was pissed!!! Why do writers do this. They take their cue from Hollywood I guess. Will I read the next sequal? I don't know. Maybe, when my anger subsides. I have to take a full star away. Otherwise this was a solid 4 star+ book.