Review of The Unhappening of Genesis Lee by Shallee McArthur

Advance Review of Shallee McArthur's The Unhappening of Genesis Lee

Release Date: November 4th, 2014

Synopsis as found on GoodReads.com:

Seventeen-year-old Genesis Lee has never forgotten anything. As one of the Mementi—a small group of genetically-enhanced humans—Gena remembers everything with the help of her Link bracelets, which preserve memories perfectly. But Links can be stolen, and six people have already lost their lives to a memory thief, including Gena’s best friend.

Anyone could be next. Which is why Gena is less than pleased to meet a strange but charming boy named Kalan who claims that they’ve not only met, but that Gena knows who the thief is.

The problem is, Gena doesn’t remember Kalan, she doesn’t remember seeing the thief, and she doesn’t know why she’s forgetting things— or how much else she might forget. As growing tensions between Mementi and ordinary humans drive the city of Havendale into chaos, Gena and Kalan team up to search for the thief. And as Gena loses more memories, they realize they have to solve the mystery fast.

Because Gena’s life is unhappening around her.

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All my life, I have wished that I had been born with an Eidetic Memory. The ability to remember everything. It seems like the perfect life, right? I would ace every test in school, always have the perfect come back to someone's snarky comment... in my mind, it seems like the perfect life.

Shallee McArthur has shown us what it would be like to have that perfect memory, but be unable to remember something. The knowledge that you can remember every moment of your whole life & yet one minor memory plagues you. It would probably send you to the crazy house, right? I already feel twitchy when I am trying to remember a word & it's on the tip of my tongue, but it just wont come to me. Imagine that times a thousand!

This story is imaginative & believable, which is sometimes hard to find in Fiction. Do you believe that this could really happen? I know that scientists are working on cures for PTSD & Alzheimer's every day, so in the future, something like this could happen. I enjoyed the unfolding of this story quite a lot & am definitely planning on picking up McArthur's next book.