I have always been more of a fantasy reader than a sci fi fan but this book had me drooling for more like it. The suspense is perfect, keeping you from daring to set down the book and reading late into the night. It is something I admired in THE FORGETTING and that continues in THE KNOWING. Sharon Cameron’s handling of a mystery is masterful. I got over it eventually, and once the book picked up I was rearing to go. But that is always a risk with companions. This was very difficult to let go of, to allow for these new characters when all I wanted was to know what went wrong and what happened to Nadia. I wanted to know what happened to Canaan, not spend time with a couple of Earth kids who have no idea what they’ve stepped into. To start I didn’t find myself very interested in the explorers. It’s a dual POV story, with the New Canaan girl on one side and the explorers from Earth on the other. The only major issue I had with the book was very early on. So I was already very curious, how had things gone so badly? This is the first hook.

Not after everything she went through in THE FORGETTING. This book takes place generations after the previous one and thus is more of a companion.In fact it’s almost like a whole new world, society is not how Nadia would have left it. It does not feature any of the characters from the previous book or even take place in the same city. After all it was one of my favorite books of the year. But after THE FORGETTING my expectations were high. I called to me, just as its predecessor THE FORGETTING did. When my eyes fell on THE KNOWING I knew I was going to have to pick it. So in picking up a new book when I’m this buy I try to be very discerning. I’d rather read one amazing book in the small amount of time I have than blast through a thousand ok ones. Somehow between all the craziness in my life I’ve managed to read one book, and that book was all I needed. What will happen when worlds and memories, beliefs - and truths - collide? When Beck is stranded without communication, he will find more in Canaan than he was ever trained for. Beck is traveling with his parents, researchers tasked with finding the abandoned settlement effort. a spaceship from Earth is heading toward the planet, like a figment of the city's forgotten past.

Someone else is on their way to Canaan too.

Samara is determined to unearth the answers, even if she must escape to the old, cursed city of Canaan to find them.

Yet she wonders if she really is free, with the memories that plague her and secrets that surround her. Safe underground in the city of New Canaan, she lives in a privileged world free from the Forgetting. Published by Scholastic Press on October 10th 2017 The Knowing (The Forgetting, #2) by Sharon Cameron

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