Daniel can remember lifetime after lifetime after lifetime. He has had countless different lives in countless different places, meeting countless different people – and Sophia. He meets Sophia, or the reincarnated version of her, in many of his lives. He loves her desperately, but they have never been able to make a life together. She does not remember him from one lifetime to another, and so Daniel must find her and make her fall in love with him over and over again.
Only it’s not quite that simple (not that that sounds all that simple, really). Often Sophia is significantly older or younger than he is. Sometimes they live so far apart that he cannot find her. Sometimes she is right under his nose, but married to his brother. That’s probably the worst – being so close but unable to touch her. This time, though, Daniel is sure that they’ll get it right. He and Lucy both attend the same high school, and this time, when he tells her who he is (and who she is), she’ll understand and they can be together. Until he fudges things, and she never wants to see him again.
Daniel must win Lucy back, and deal with an unexpected problem from their past, before he loses her to another lifetime. My Name is Memory appealed to me in the same way as The Time Traveler’s Wife, and fans of that book will find much to enjoy here. Although this can be read as a stand-alone novel, it was meant to be the first of a trilogy. A sequel has yet to be approved for publication, however, so Ms. Brashares encourages readers to spread the word (duly noted and done!) so that the rest of Daniel and Lucy’s story can be told.
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It does sound like the Time Traveller, it will be interesting to see how it fares, the promise of a trilogy is interesting too. Thanks for the review.
Kind of like groundhog day but with entire lifetimes.
I read this book some time ago not realizing it was meant to be a trilogy. I desperately look forward to the next book. What is holding up publication? I hope approval for publication comes soon as I can’t wait to find out what happens to Daniel and Lucy next.
Definitely want to follow the characters. Interesting premise. Well written story.
If there ever was a cliff hanger, this is it. Really great book, but precipitious ending. If this is it, I am disappointed. Hope a sequel is on it’s way!
I just finished this book. I could not put it down. Most obviously there needs to be a sequel!! And quick!
I love that book! it hooked me fromt he beginign and left me desperate at the end! i cant wait till the next one is out!
Thanks for the great review.
I just finished this book.. I loved it.. is this it?? there has to be more! I need more, I gotta kno what happens to daniel and lucy!
This was the FIRST book I have ever truly finished and couldn’t stand to put it down. I finished it just yesterday and was disappointed when I searched for the sequel but could not find one! I cannot wait until, it the time ever comes, the last two books to the trilogy comes out. I know for a fact I will buy them both immediately. So please, please, please let their story be told!
Emily, glad you like the book, while you are waiting for a new title to come out, you might try The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, which has some similarities.
This is indeed one of my best read books. :) Still waiting for the sequel to come out. Still excited as ever. ha ha ha ha! Soooo, when is it gonna be released?
I am positively crushed that a sequel has not been approved years after this fantastic book was written. I am vested and want to find out how this story will end! Please don’t leave this unfinished.
Just finished the book, and was really disappointed to find there was no sequel. Not really good as a standalone read, although the story itself was great.
This has more in common to the Fallen series. Even the two main characters have almost the same name Daniel and Lucy in this and Daniel and Luce in Fallen series. In both the female dies each time and Daniel have to make them fall in love with him again. Though in Fallen series, their love is cursed as Daniel is a fallen angel.
It is a great tale, or at least had the potential to be one, but I can see why the sequel (or movie) hasn’t made it far. The lead character too often devolved into an insipid, unlikeable character, esp for whom he supposedly is. And there are several WTF moments that are as incongrous as they are betrayals of what had already been established and there is some foreshadowing about as subtle as a nuclear bomb that I find it very hard to believe this novel was written by anybody over the age of ten let alone an accomplished author. For shame! At least Memory has reminded me to reread the far superior Jitterbug Perfume again.
Very, very frustrating! I seldom pay full price for a book, but would have for the sequel to this story. Unfortunately, there’s no sequel to buy. A little afraid to start her other series for fear of the same thing happening. Maybe it goes back to being known as a “young adult” author, then writing a book that appeals to adults more than kids. Too bad, wish she’d completed the series.