Book Review:The Book of Memory Gaps

Title: The Book of Memory Gaps

Author: Cecilia Ruiz

Publish Date: March 10th 2015

Rating: ☕ ☕ ☕

I was really looking forward to this book because I enjoy gothic inspired humor like Tim Burton’s “The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy”, and Edward Gorey’s “The Gashlycrumb Tinies”. Unfortunately “The Book of Memory Gaps”, like its subject matter, was rather unmemorable.

The book features 14 vignettes, each describing a different memory condition and how it manifests in the featured character. The symptoms are based on real life brain conditions and it is interesting learn how memory can go wrong in so many different ways. But the vignettes lacked the cleverness of similar works and were easily forgotten. The best part about this book was the art. The illustrations were simple, but lovely and definitely more memorable than the accompanying text. And they are the sole reason I gave this book a 3 instead of a 2. 

**NetGalley provided me with an advance reader copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.**