The Memory Hit by Carla Spradbery - Starting April 6th 2015

[Sarah Elizabeth]

On New Year's Eve, Jess's life is unrecognizable: her best friend is in the hospital, her boyfriend is a cheater. A drug-dealing cheater it would seem, after finding a stash of Nostalgex in his bag.

Nostalgex: a drug that stimulates memory. In small doses, a person can remember the order of a deck of cards, or an entire revision guide read the day before an exam. In larger doses it allows the user detailed access to their past, almost like watching a DVD with the ability to pause a moment in time, to focus on previously unnoticed details and to see everything they've ever experienced with fresh eyes. As Leon, the local dealer, says 'it's like life, only better.' What he fails to mention is that most memories are clouded by emotions. Even the most vivid memories can look very different when visited.

Across town Sam Cooper is in trouble. Again. This time, gagged and bound in the boot of a car. Getting on the wrong side of a drug dealer is never a good idea, but if he doesn't make enough money to feed and clothe his sister, who will?

On New Year's Day, Jess and Cooper's worlds collide. They must put behind their differences and work together to look into their pasts to uncover a series of events that will lead them to know what really happened on that fateful New Year's Eve. But what they find is that everything they had once believed to be true, turns out to be a lie ...

'A pleasingly dark teen thriller with fun, fresh characters. Spradbery is a debut author to watch.' James Dawson.

This book has not yet been released, and review copies are available to request on NetGalley here: https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/sho...

Everybody welcome ☺

[Irene]

I'm so ready for this one

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I'm ready for anything as long as it's good, the book I'm reading right now is killing me slowly.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

3% (view spoiler)[ I've gotten a bit confused in places because there seems to be some jumps in the text or something. but now jess is finding out that luke is cheating on her with scarlet? (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

4% (view spoiler)[ and luke is a drug dealer but she didn't know? (hide spoiler)]

[Abi]

Starting now too. :)

[Abi]

Sarah wrote: "3% [spoilers removed]"

Yeah, the writings a bit jumpy.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

There were a couple of lines where it was like words and punctuation were missing. it went straight from a paragraph to someone speaking without a stop.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

10% (view spoiler)[ I am really confused now. luke and scarlet were in the burning house, and cooper was getting beaten up by someone? (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

It just keeps jumping from jess to Cooper without warning!

[Abi]

Sarah wrote: "It just keeps jumping from jess to Cooper without warning!"

Have you not got the name headers on yours?

[Sarah Elizabeth]

There are some, but there are other places where it changes and they aren't on there.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

24% (view spoiler)[ did he really expect her to put up with his cheating?! (hide spoiler)]

[Irene]

I'm having a kindle problem, so I still haven't started, but it should be solves in a minute or two! :)

[Irene]

Sarah wrote: "3% [spoilers removed]"

Glad you noticed that too. I'm confused as well.
Also, are the chapers divined by the big characternames or what? I'm at 5 % and it says "Cooper" in large font. Is that a new chapter or what? *sigh* This is what I hate about eARCs, they can be so confusing! :)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

It has the names, which i think are supposed to relate to the changing point of view, but then at points it jumps without there being a header. It's confusing.

[Sarah Elizabeth]

47% (view spoiler)[ why did she take so many? bit stupid! (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

57% (view spoiler)[ well someone is trying to kill him! (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

63% (view spoiler)[ so was it luke who blew up the petrol station? (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

67% (view spoiler)[ so where the heck is Luke?! (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

68% (view spoiler)[ Jess keeps thinking about those tablets, is she really hooked after taking them once? (hide spoiler)]

[Irene]

20%
(view spoiler)[So this uncle... No questions asked as to why Cooper looks beaten up? Doesn't seem responsible! (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

70% (view spoiler)[ she's taken more of them? I'm guessing she's going to notice something pivotal whilst using them. (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Irene wrote: "20%
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(view spoiler)[ his uncle really doesn't give a sh*t about Cooper or Amy. (hide spoiler)]

[Nikki]

Is it worth a read I'm unsure whether to start this or not

[Irene]

Nikki wrote: "Is it worth a read I'm unsure whether to start this or not"

I'm only at 20%, but I think it depends. Do you want a really, really good book, then no, I don't think this is worth it. If you just need a so-so book (3 stars or so), then yes. Hard to say though, a lot can happen in the 80% I haven't yet read :)

[Sarah Elizabeth]

73% (view spoiler)[ so it was whiteface who blew up the gas station. (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Nikki wrote: "Is it worth a read I'm unsure whether to start this or not"

It's okay, it's probably a 3-3.5 star book at the moment ☺

[Irene]

Sarah wrote: "24% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[And the drugs as well. He's really naïve if he thought that! (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

76% (view spoiler)[ why the heck so he hit her like that?!

Ah! They weren't cheating on her! They were cheating on their exams by using the drugs! (hide spoiler)]

[Abi]

Sarah wrote: "47% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[Really stupid! (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

77% (view spoiler)[ finally! An adult that gives a shit! (hide spoiler)]

[Irene]

30%
(view spoiler)[It's really hard to tell the text messages apart. They should've been in different font or something. I'm confused as to who's writing what in the Leon chapter. (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Irene wrote: "30%
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(view spoiler)[ they're just in a smaller font in my copy. (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

the end (view spoiler)[ so it was Amy? wasn't expecting that! and Cooper died in the end. hmm. Jess got really hooked on those drugs too. (hide spoiler)]

[Irene]

44%
(view spoiler)[LIke father like son. I get why Amy's angry and disappointed. (hide spoiler)]

47%
(view spoiler)[So she's going from ordinary painkillers to 5-6 of these N-pills? That sure sounds like a bad idea!! Also doesn't seem like something she'd do, but oh well.. (hide spoiler)]

61%
(view spoiler)[Okay, how old are these kids? A little young to be dealing drugs, especially this amount of them!
Also, did we ever hear what happened to the parents of Cooper and Amy? I mean, are they in jail or did they die? So if they are in jail....could they be behind all this? Just guessing here!

Also, I'd really like if the flashbacks/memory-drug-scenes were written like this or something. It gets confusing! (hide spoiler)]

[Irene]

Sarah wrote: "the end [spoilers removed]"

Oh nooooes I accidentally looked at your spoiler. Good thing I don't have that much left of the book!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

sorry!

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Irene wrote: "44%
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(view spoiler)[ Amy and Coopers father is in jail, I'm not sure about their mother. I think she's dead. (hide spoiler)]

[Irene]

It's not like you meant for me to see it, so it's fine :)

Sarah wrote: "68% [spoilers removed]"

(view spoiler)[Yeah, apparently they were very addictive (hide spoiler)]

[Sarah Elizabeth]

I sometimes can't help but click those little spoiler tags too ☺

[Abi]

Sarah wrote: "Irene wrote: "30%
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They were like that in mine too.

[Abi]

Irene wrote: "It's not like you meant for me to see it, so it's fine :)

Sarah wrote: "68% [spoilers removed]"

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(view spoiler)[Really addictive! (hide spoiler)]