My thoughts
I'm at a loss here. Totally blown away. I don't want to give anything away so will have to say... This is a great book. It's so good. It will definitely be in my top 10 books for this year. It was a BOTM and I got an ARC.
If you are looking for a book that will knock your socks off this is it. I highly recommend it. It's that good.
What happens to memories? We have memories. Memories that we accumulate throughout our lives. What happens to them once we are no longer here? Once we pass on to wherever it is we go too. This book tells a story of what may happen to them. A beautiful, touching, loving, story.
Back when the world turned dark. During the times of the Nazi's and Hitler and death, murder, removal of a race of people. Or the attempt to erase said race there was a man. A man who made watches. He had a secret. They wanted to know his secrets. They wanted to know how he did what he did. How the watches worked exactly. So when they came to his door he pushed his young daughter through a door and pulled it closed. He would do whatever he could to protect her.
That is how you meet Lisavet Levy. She is living in what appears to be a library. But not your usual library. This one is a library of memories. Lisavet is only eleven years old and has no idea what to do or how she is to survive. But through many years she does learn. She doesn't have to sleep or eat. She meets people. Some not so good. Some who come to destroy memories. Memories that need to be saved. So begins Lisavet's journey of saving memories.
Lisavet meets a man. A living man. They fall in love. They go through a lot. Ernest becomes someone she needs. Someone she loves more than anything. He was one that started out burning memories. Until he met Lisavet and she told him not to do that anymore. It's a bit more complicated than that but that is what this story is about. Lisavet and Ernest. When they are and when they aren't.
Lisavet would have spent her whole life inside this book world. Filled with so many bookshelves that are filled with many books. Lisavet discovers a whole world that she had no idea existed. Things that happened. Things that the outer world want everyone to forget.... Lisavet is determined that no one will forget.
The Book of Lost Hours is what I have to call perfection. Between the covers of this book is a story like none I have ever read. It's beautiful. It's inspiring. It's so full of hope and love. Yes there are bad things. There are tears to be shed. But this author did such a good job with this one. It's just beyond words for me.
I enjoyed this book so much. I didn't want to put it down. It's a page turner filled with lots of emotion. I can't say enough how much I enjoyed reading this one.
Thank you @BOTM, @Atriabooks, for this book.
5 big stars
About
For fans of The Ministry of Time and The Midnight Library , a sweeping, unforgettable novel following two remarkable women moving between postwar and Cold War-era America and the mysterious time space, a library filled with books containing the memories of those who bore witness to history.
Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son—but mostly now in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938, waiting for her watchmaker father to return for her. When he doesn’t, she grows up among the books and specters, able to see the world only by sifting through the memories of those who came before her. As she realizes that government agents are entering the time space to destroy books and maintain their preferred version of history, she sets about saving these scraps in her own volume of memories. Until the appearance of an American spy named Ernest Duquesne in 1949 offers her a glimpse of the world she left behind, setting her on a course to change history and possibly the time space itself.
In 1965, sixteen-year-old Amelia Duquesne is mourning the disappearance of her uncle Ernest when an enigmatic CIA agent approaches her to enlist her help in tracking down a book of memories her uncle had once sought. But when Amelia visits the time space for the first time, she realizes that the past—and the truth—might not be as linear as she’d like to believe.
The Book of Lost Hours explores time, memory, and what we sacrifice to protect those we love.
Enter the time space, a soaring library filled with books containing the memories of those have passed and accessed only by specially made watches once passed from father to son—but mostly now in government hands. This is where eleven-year-old Lisavet Levy finds herself trapped in 1938, waiting for her watchmaker father to return for her. When he doesn’t, she grows up among the books and specters, able to see the world only by sifting through the memories of those who came before her. As she realizes that government agents are entering the time space to destroy books and maintain their preferred version of history, she sets about saving these scraps in her own volume of memories. Until the appearance of an American spy named Ernest Duquesne in 1949 offers her a glimpse of the world she left behind, setting her on a course to change history and possibly the time space itself.
In 1965, sixteen-year-old Amelia Duquesne is mourning the disappearance of her uncle Ernest when an enigmatic CIA agent approaches her to enlist her help in tracking down a book of memories her uncle had once sought. But when Amelia visits the time space for the first time, she realizes that the past—and the truth—might not be as linear as she’d like to believe.
The Book of Lost Hours explores time, memory, and what we sacrifice to protect those we love.
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