TB Conspiracy

I find it interesting that this book came out around the same time that Bin Laden was finally killed and that I happened to be reading it on the day I found out. Memento Nora is about the world after 9/11. It should not have taken me this long to read a book with only 184 pages but I have been real busy.
After the attack on the WTC, more and more attacks kept occurring, creating an America where things are much more controlled and monitored by the government. The biggest change in the country is the addition of TFC, Therapeutic Forgetting Clinics, where people are urged to visit after any kind of disturbing or traumatizing event so they can take a little white pill and forget the bad memories and go back to being "glossy". Gives a whole new meaning to the "morning-after pill". Though it isn't mandatory to forget, it is greatly recommended especially since there are bombs going off all over the place. Of course there is a bit of a twist, something that is being hidden, the real reason the government wants you to forget, but isn't there always?
I have to admit.. I'm a sucker for a happy ending, but in some stories a happy ending would only ruin the point that the author is trying to convey. The ending in Memento Nora is necessary for the story to have the effect it is intended to have. The only thing I was unhappy with while reading this book is that the author made it so short... I feel like there is so much more she could have done with it.
Angie Smibert is another of my debut authors of 2011.
This book only confirmed my current fear... that this is only the beginning. Most people seem to feel as though the death of Osama is the end of a terrible thing, when in truth, it is just the beginning of a string of more terrible things to come. There are a lot of terrorists out there that are going to want justice for their leader's death and they aren't going to take it lightly. Now is the time to fear.