Sometimes there's a town called Indianola.
And sometimes there isn't.
Summer, 1993. Claire has been dumped in rural Indianola, Texas, to spend her whole vacation taking care of mean, sickly Grammy. There's nothing too remarkable about Indianola: it's run-down, shabby, and stifling hot, a pin-dot on the Gulf Coast.
Well, there is one remarkable thing, she discovers. Something otherworldly.
But if you leave Indianola, you forget about it... and if you stay, you have to live with it every day.
Because there's a confluence of energies at Indianola, a fissure in time and space, a gap in reality. Nothing is as it seems. And unless Claire can figure out this town--the talkative lizards under the pecan trees; the honey-sweet but terrifying girl next door; the cute daughter of a powerful family, who would answer Claire's questions if she had any answers; the pervasive sense of history coming unspooled, like a video tape--she might never leave.
Featuring a mindbending plot, heartfelt queer romance, brilliant writing, and intricate worldbuilding, Forget This Ever Happened is a lush and thrilling genre-bender perfect for the Black Mirror generation.
My Review:
Yeah, I really enjoyed this book! The whole concept of a town that has a gap in reality, it's just so fascinating. And I really enjoyed going on this journey of Claire's, she was a really great character! It was just a really great book to read!
This was a little bit of a horror book. After all, there are monsters or something, and they can mess with your mind, and erase themselves from your mind the further you get from the town. So that's pretty scary. And Claire doesn't want to get trapped in this town, so that's a problem.
I love the fact that this book is set in the 90's. I felt immersed in the culture, like the video tape reference in the synopsis. It felt natural, and this is only the 2nd book that I've read like this, so I really enjoyed that!
Finally, the romance was just so adorable! And I loved the rep, because there can never be enough well done rep until it's not rep, it's a normal part of society, you know? I just loved Claire and Julie, they were a great couple to read about!
This was a really great, original book, and I really enjoyed reading it!
Author: Cassandra Rose Clarke
Read: October 14th, 2020
Source: YA Bound Review Copy
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2020 Book!
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: September 1st 2020
Bio:
Cassandra Rose Clarke's novels have been finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, and YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults. Her poetry has placed second in the Rhysling Awards, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and appeared in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, and elsewhere. Her latest novel is Halo: Battle Born, out now from Scholastic.
Cassandra graduated in 2006 from The University of St. Thomas with a B.A. in English, and two years later she completed her master’s degree in creative writing at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2010 she attended the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop in Seattle, where she was a recipient of the Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund. She is currently the associate director for a Houston-based literary arts nonprofit, Writespace.
Cassandra is represented by Stacia Decker of the Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency.
A collection of manuscript materials related to Cassandra's work, including her unpublished master's thesis, are now available digitally through the Cushings Manuscript Collections Database at Texas A&M University.
This was a really great, original book, and I really enjoyed reading it!
Author: Cassandra Rose Clarke
Read: October 14th, 2020
Source: YA Bound Review Copy
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2020 Book!
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: September 1st 2020
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Cassandra Rose Clarke's novels have been finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award, and YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults. Her poetry has placed second in the Rhysling Awards, been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and appeared in Strange Horizons, Star*Line, and elsewhere. Her latest novel is Halo: Battle Born, out now from Scholastic.
Cassandra graduated in 2006 from The University of St. Thomas with a B.A. in English, and two years later she completed her master’s degree in creative writing at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2010 she attended the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop in Seattle, where she was a recipient of the Susan C. Petrey Clarion Scholarship Fund. She is currently the associate director for a Houston-based literary arts nonprofit, Writespace.
Cassandra is represented by Stacia Decker of the Dunow, Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency.
A collection of manuscript materials related to Cassandra's work, including her unpublished master's thesis, are now available digitally through the Cushings Manuscript Collections Database at Texas A&M University.
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