The Book of M

“The Book of M” is a standalone novel written by Peng Shepherd. The novel is set in a near future world, where people are losing their shadows and with that they also start to lose their memories. The novel follows Ory and his wife Max, they are living an as normal life as they can after the ‘forgetting', but everything goes wrong when Max loses her shadow, and eventually, she runs away to protect Ory as, the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become. Ory goes after her, hoping to find her before her memories fade completely.

The novel was interesting, with the shadows disappearing, and that causing peoples memories to fade as well, it was very interesting, I really enjoyed the first part of the novel, but I started not to care for some of the characters. We also don't find anything out about why the shadows were disappearing. So, in the end, it was a good novel, so I gave the novel a 3/5 stars.