I think pain is a thing that, when it fills your cup, you shouldn’t keep pouring from the pitcher. It’s one of the things I hold against it. Truth can look so flimsy and feeble sometimes. Both of these have been hugely popular, as she plans to continue them on into the future, as there’s plenty of room to expand upon them.

It only lies in wait for you, remembered or forgotten. This includes ‘The Forgetting’ series, which focuses on a world in which everything that is not written is forgotten, along with ‘The Dark Unwinding’, which is more historically set fiction. īook Quotes: The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron As the anarchy of the Forgetting approaches, Nadia and Gray must stop an unseen enemy that threatens both their city and their own existence – before the people can forget the truth. Because Nadia is the only person in Canaan who has never forgotten.īut when Nadia begins to use her memories to solve the mysteries of Canaan, she discovers truths about herself and Gray, the handsome glassblower, that will change her world forever. In Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows exactly who hasn't written the truth. The Forgetting, a consequence-free night of lawlessness and bloodshed accompanied by a total loss of memory, comes to the walled city of Canaan every 12 years. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person's memories – of parents, children, love, life, and self – are lost.

Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. The Forgetting is one of those books that starts a bit slow, with very few details and knowledge at first but not in frustrating way, given how forgetting and not knowing anything beyond the most recent 12 years before another Forgetting is the way people live in this world Sharon Cameron has created.