Memory Full: U-DAY
by Rapha Ram

She has lived her life holding her actions and thoughts. Now it’s time to fight for the life of her dreams.

In the midst of the 2040s, Livvy Blunt, a girl with an unquiet mind, lives in confinement. Her home is a monastery, a place of silence and meditation created to keep her mind free from the frivolous matters of the modern world.

The Monastery is a corporation with a clear goal: transform young Empty-heads into skilled Silver-hairs. The means to do that are controversial: uploads of skills to the brain. The more youngsters manage to keep their minds empty of gossip and avoid overthinking life, the more skills can be transferred.

Livvy has a hard time trying to keep her mind idle, but her sacrifice should pay off by the promise of a successful future as a Silver-hair, a professional any recruiter would fight to hire. But when time comes for her to choose her set of skills, she is denied every professional and fun skill she ever longed for.

People say she’s lucky for being selected to the Monasterial Upload Program, but she’s not so sure.

4 out of 5 fairies

Imagine, if at 18, you could just receive instant information and skill downloads to your brain. All you have to do is turn your life over to a corporation and keep your mind as empty as possible until then. Set in the not too distant future, this is an absolutely terrifying prospect. Livvy’s life is right on track for this new way of learning, until everything changes one night. The journey that sets her on was full of suspense, tension, and twists that made it hard for me to set down the book for even a moment. The plot flowed smoothly, and the characters were well-developed. I’m really looking forward to reading book two!

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Just another author, with the same set of letters from the alphabet, trying to put them in such order that they could bring joy, excitement, pain, and inspiration — while trying to make a living out of it.

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