Forest of Memory
Mary Robinette Kowal
Katya deals in Authenticities and Captures, trading on nostalgia for a past long gone. Her clients are rich and they demand items and experiences with only the finest verifiable provenance. Other people’s lives have value, after all. But when her A.I. suddenly stops whispering in her ear she finds herself cut off from the grid and loses communication with the rest of the world. The man who stepped out of the trees while hunting deer cut her off from the cloud, took her A.I., and made her his unwilling guest. There are no Authenticities or Captures to prove Katya’s story of what happened in the forest. You’ll just have to believe her.
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Started out slow and rather boring then picked up after about 40 pages (do keep in mind this is a short story of only 85 pages, so that doesn’t bode well) Then it had a very weak ending. Nothing was explained, and instead we are just given questions to think about.
Also the typos, while I know were suppose to be there, as they were to show we were reading a piece written on a typewriter, was annoying and at times frustrating.
0Was finding this intriguing but confusing, then the *very last words* made me wish it had been aiming that way more clearly the whole time, and.... I dunno, it just all felt a little bit like a missed opportunity in some way?
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