A review by gwendle_vs_literature
The Memory Collectors by Kim Neville

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

This story was darker than I’d anticipated, although my reading wasn’t as sinister as one of the other members of my book club. 

There were threads of the story that felt somewhat incomplete at the end (which I personally don’t mind as I’m more put off by attempts to tie absolutely everything up too neatly) and there were some plot points and character shifts that felt somewhat under-explained or too sudden, but overall it’s a solid narrative with a magical realism element based in actual human experience:

it’s common for an object to become imbued with meaning for its owner or someone else familiar with it, and for finding, seeing, or holding that object to evoke strong emotions in the person for whom it has meaning, so the idea that the emotional imprint could also affect others is an extension of a real phenomenon, and not something wholly unbelievable.

This is a book that I can definitely recommend, and I’d gladly read other books by this author.