Just Kira’s Weblog

This book, Escape from Memory, by Margaret Peterson Haddix, was a great book from a great author. She’s also the one who wrote Just Ella, which was enjoyable, but this one was very different in tone and genre. It was more of a mystery genre. It had a lot to do with memory, and the general story follows a girl named Kira who finds out that she is not who she thought she was all her life. I don’t want to spoil it, so I shall say no more! But it has a lot of plot twists that I didn’t expect and it was definitely one of those books you couldn’t put down. One of the things that was really interesting about the book were the characters who could remember everything and I was sort of wistful about that. I’ve always thought that having a photographic memory would  be really cool; you would probably be really smart =_=. But I understood, I think, from reading the book that sometimes there are things you don’t want to remember, and as a result, remembering everything that ever happened to you- or in the book’s case, even stuff that didn’t happen to you in particular- would be painful…