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Blog Tour & Review: Forget This Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke

Posted by Jennifer in 4 Stars, Blog Tour, Giveaways, Paranormal, Review, Young Adult / Leave a Comment

Genre: YA Sci-fi Mystery
Pages: 336
Publisher: Holiday House
Published: October 6th, 2020

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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.

 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR-

Cassandra Rose Clarke’s work has placed in the Rhysling Awards and been nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award, the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award, the Pushcart Prize, and YALSA’s Best Fiction for Young Adults. ​She grew up in south Texas and currently lives in Houston, where she writes and serves as the associate director for Writespace, a literary arts nonprofit. She holds an M.A. in creative writing from The University of Texas at Austin, and in 2010 she attended the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop in Seattle. Her latest novel is Halo: Battle Born, out now from Scholastic.

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Review of Forget This Ever Happened

Review (3.75 Stars):  Forget This Ever Happened is a mind-bending story with so many twist and turns that will keep you guessing. Claire just moved to town to spend the summer helping her sick grandmother.  Before too long, strange things start happening and Claire has a hard time remembering things.  Is the heat doing this or is something more sinister happening to Claire.

This was a very interesting story and I definitely felt as though Indianola was a place that had too many dark secrets.  I liked Claire and I felt sorry that she was stuck taking care of her grandmother in a new place during a hot summer.  This story had a lot of twists and turns and the plot twist was definitely something that I hadn’t planned on.

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