It has two of my favorite things: witches and ghosts! So naturally i very much enjoyed this book.:)Īlthough it was admittedly darker than i thought it would be, it is the perfect creepiness for its targeted age group and i can see a lot of kids loving this book. I thinj this book would have been an all time favorite of mine if i had read it at the age that this book is targeted for. This was an objective 4 star but a 3 star personally so I settled with 3.5. I recieved an E- ARC from Aladin Press via Netgalley! Huge thank you to them for the ARC! The knowledge of her beloved stories is an arsenal in this world, but to unlock their power, Rosie must dare to have hope and believe in herself in the face of daunting odds. Here, words are weapons against the darkness, and witch hunters are those brave enough to wield their imaginations in the face of the unthinkable. In her quest to save her mom-and with her wild, loyal friend “Germ” by her side-Rosie will find the layers hidden under the reality she only thought she knew: where ghosts linger as shades of the past, where clouds witness the world, and a ladder dangles from the moon leading to something bigger and more. And it is this witch who has cursed Rosie’s mother.

One of these witches-the Memory Thief-holds an insidious power to steal our most precious treasures: our memories. Then, on the night Rosie decides to throw her stories away forever, an invisible ally helps her discover the Witch Hunter’s Guide to the Universe, a book that claims that all of the evil in the world stems from thirteen witches who are unseen.but also unstoppable. All her life, Rosie has known this.and turned to stories for comfort.

Twelve-year-old Rosie Oaks’s mom is missing whatever it is that makes mothers love their daughters.

The Memory Thief by Jodi Lynn Anderson