Archetype Author: M. D. Waters | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DGZKWOA | Format: PDF
Archetype Description
Introducing a breathtakingly inventive futuristic suspense novel about one woman who rebels against everything she is told to believe. Emma wakes in a hospital, with no memory of what came before. Her husband, Declan, a powerful, seductive man, provides her with new memories, but her dreams contradict his stories, showing her a past life she can’t believe possible: memories of war, of a camp where girls are trained to be wives, of love for another man. Something inside her tells her not to speak of this, but she does not know why. She only knows she is at war with herself.
Suppressing those dreams during daylight hours, Emma lets Declan mold her into a happily married woman and begins to fall in love with him. But the day Noah stands before her, the line between her reality and dreams shatters.
In a future where women are a rare commodity, Emma fights for freedom but is held captive by the love of two men—one her husband, the other her worst enemy. If only she could remember which is which. . . .
The first novel in a two-part series,
Archetype heralds the arrival of a truly memorable character—and the talented author who created her.
- File Size: 1594 KB
- Print Length: 384 pages
- Publisher: Dutton Adult (February 6, 2014)
- Sold by: Penguin Group (USA) LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DGZKWOA
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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I’ve been reading SF for a long time, and since I started reading with my father’s collection, which also went back a fair length of time, I’ve been reading stories from essentially the 1930’s and later, with the exception of some classics from even earlier. So I’m biased. I’ve “read it before.” So I won’t excuse clever writing that skips all of the other elements of good writing, as there are plenty of stories that do both well. Even more germane to this novel, I am biased against amnesia/regaining memory and time travel stories. Both are absolutely some of my favorites when done properly. The problem is that most of the time these plot devices are done shoddily and as excuses for flaws in the story development.
These story deals with the amnesia side of things, and unlike the hideous way it was handled in the recent Scorch Trials series, this handles it in an intriguing way. Once you get about two-thirds of the way through the book, you end up witha nicely done explanation. It’s hard slogging through the first third or so of the book. The story is told from the amnesiac’s viewpoint, and since her world is confusing and disjointed, yours is too. Plus there are these confusing flashbacks she keeps having that indications much of what those around her are telling her are leaving out all kinds of critical information to manipulate her, when they aren’t outright lies.
The problem is that the contradictions have terrible implications, and she cannot ask anyone exactly what her life was before the “accident” everyone keeps telling her caused her amnesia. There’s more to this, as in the first 10 pages or so she begins to have internal dialogs with a voice inside of her, that she realizes is part of her, yet seems to be more connected to the missing chunks of her lie.
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