21 exciting YA book releases we can’t wait to read in Fall 2021
By Lacy Baugher
Fall 2021 release: Remember Me – Estelle Laure
The latest novel from the critically acclaimed author of This Raging Light and Mayhem, Remember Me is described as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Suzanne Young’s YA series The Program and explores the painful joy of memory.
Set in 2032, when a new treatment called Tabula Rasa allows users to erase their most painful memories, seventeen-year-old Blue Owens wakes up with the knowledge that something is wrong. She doesn’t know what it is, but she knows that something is different. People are acting weird and she’s found a strange note telling her to meet a boy named Adam that she doesn’t know, but who feels familiar anyway.
When she discovers that she’s paid to have him removed from her memories, Blue will have to figure out why she wanted to lose them in the first place, and whether those moments are to essential to her own identity to stay lost.
The official synopsis describes the story as follows.
"If you could erase all of your painful memories, would you? Blue Owens wakes up one day with the strangest feeling that something is very wrong. Everyone’s acting weird and she’s found a note in her closet telling her to get on the Little Blue Bus at 7:45, which she does, meeting up with the exact person she was supposed to avoid: Adam Mendoza. Even though she has no idea who he is, something about him is so familiar. When the two are discovered by their families, the truth is revealed—Blue has paid to have her memories removed, and Adam is one of those memories. What transpires is Blue’s journey to get her memories back, uncover the truth of why she had them removed in the first place, and ultimately decide whether they were too necessary to who she is to lose in the first place."
Remember Me is available on October 12.