The Recall Paradox

What if everything you remember is a lie?

Freya Izquierdo and Fletcher Cohen believe they're done with top-secret memory knifing. After successfully hacking a terrorist's memories and foiling the Memory Ghosts' next attack, they spend their school break intending to clear Fletcher's dad of being accused of colluding with the radical group.

Exposing the truth should be straightforward, if not easy. But Fletcher's house is robbed, and Freya makes a shocking discovery about her flawed recall. When they return to Foxtail Academy, no one but the dean and Dr. Sanders seems to remember Freya, Fletcher, and their friends Chase and Ollie. Then the Memory Ghosts make contact, and everything the four students thought was true proves false.

As they struggle to shine light on the shadowy battlefield between Memory Frontier and the Memory Ghosts, their only option is to undertake the most difficult and risky knifing mission of their lives. But this time, more than their lives are at stake.

In this heart-stopping and gripping conclusion to the critically acclaimed Memory Index duology,*the only way out is in, and the only way to safety is through reckless danger that could wipe Freya and Fletcher from everyone's minds*.*.*.*forever.

  • Speculative YA sci/fi novel
  • Book length: 100,000 words
  • Get hooked on The Memory Index Duology:
    • Book 1:*The Memory Index
    • Book 2:*The Recall Paradox
  • Author's playlist and a scannable QR code to stream the playlist are available in the accompanying audiobook companion PDF download.
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The Recall Paradox

What if everything you remember is a lie?

Freya Izquierdo and Fletcher Cohen believe they're done with top-secret memory knifing. After successfully hacking a terrorist's memories and foiling the Memory Ghosts' next attack, they spend their school break intending to clear Fletcher's dad of being accused of colluding with the radical group.

Exposing the truth should be straightforward, if not easy. But Fletcher's house is robbed, and Freya makes a shocking discovery about her flawed recall. When they return to Foxtail Academy, no one but the dean and Dr. Sanders seems to remember Freya, Fletcher, and their friends Chase and Ollie. Then the Memory Ghosts make contact, and everything the four students thought was true proves false.

As they struggle to shine light on the shadowy battlefield between Memory Frontier and the Memory Ghosts, their only option is to undertake the most difficult and risky knifing mission of their lives. But this time, more than their lives are at stake.

In this heart-stopping and gripping conclusion to the critically acclaimed Memory Index duology,*the only way out is in, and the only way to safety is through reckless danger that could wipe Freya and Fletcher from everyone's minds*.*.*.*forever.

  • Speculative YA sci/fi novel
  • Book length: 100,000 words
  • Get hooked on The Memory Index Duology:
    • Book 1:*The Memory Index
    • Book 2:*The Recall Paradox
  • Author's playlist and a scannable QR code to stream the playlist are available in the accompanying audiobook companion PDF download.
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The Recall Paradox

The Recall Paradox

by Julian Ray Vaca

Narrated by Sophia Courage, Tyler Kwiatkowski

Unabridged — 11 hours, 4 minutes

The Recall Paradox

The Recall Paradox

by Julian Ray Vaca

Narrated by Sophia Courage, Tyler Kwiatkowski

Unabridged — 11 hours, 4 minutes

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Overview

What if everything you remember is a lie?

Freya Izquierdo and Fletcher Cohen believe they're done with top-secret memory knifing. After successfully hacking a terrorist's memories and foiling the Memory Ghosts' next attack, they spend their school break intending to clear Fletcher's dad of being accused of colluding with the radical group.

Exposing the truth should be straightforward, if not easy. But Fletcher's house is robbed, and Freya makes a shocking discovery about her flawed recall. When they return to Foxtail Academy, no one but the dean and Dr. Sanders seems to remember Freya, Fletcher, and their friends Chase and Ollie. Then the Memory Ghosts make contact, and everything the four students thought was true proves false.

As they struggle to shine light on the shadowy battlefield between Memory Frontier and the Memory Ghosts, their only option is to undertake the most difficult and risky knifing mission of their lives. But this time, more than their lives are at stake.

In this heart-stopping and gripping conclusion to the critically acclaimed Memory Index duology,*the only way out is in, and the only way to safety is through reckless danger that could wipe Freya and Fletcher from everyone's minds*.*.*.*forever.

  • Speculative YA sci/fi novel
  • Book length: 100,000 words
  • Get hooked on The Memory Index Duology:
    • Book 1:*The Memory Index
    • Book 2:*The Recall Paradox
  • Author's playlist and a scannable QR code to stream the playlist are available in the accompanying audiobook companion PDF download.

Editorial Reviews

ALA/YALSA Alex Award–winning author Rob Rufus

'THE RECALL PARADOX starts with a bang and never lets off the gas. This trippy, thought-provoking thrill ride is full of mystery and heart. Julian R. Vaca created a world in which memory is in constant flux and then filled it with a cast of indelible characters who are impossible to forget.'

Forward Indie Book Award finalist and author of Un Nicole Zelniker

'THE RECALL PARADOX hooked me from page one and refused to let me go until I finished. Like THE MEMORY INDEX, this sequel is at once a thrilling dystopian adventure and a beautiful meditation on grief, memory, and humanity.'

author of the critically-acclaimed WHAT'S COMING Francesca Padilla

'Stunning and complex, THE RECALL PARADOX cracks open the vast world introduced in the first book with interwoven histories, fascinating new characters, shifting relationships, and chilling revelations. The story hits the gas pedal on page one and just keeps climbing. This was truly a satisfying reading experience; I couldn't put either of these books down.'

author of COIL QUAKE RIFT Nathan Elias

'THE RECALL PARADOX is a mind-bending, action-packed, and heartfelt novel that merges sentimentality with science, challenges the connection between history and memory, and reinforces the importance of self-discovery and friendship. Vaca has delivered more than a book; this sequel is a warning to protect everything you know and love before they are rewritten.'

Kirkus Reviews

2023-03-14
The secret origin of the viral plague of memory loss afflicting the world is revealed in this duology closer.

Picking up the action where The Memory Index (2022) left off and driving on with minimal recapping, Vaca sends his multiethnic group of four teenagers back to the secret laboratory in the Tennessee woods for more shared “knifing” into the memories of others, reclamation of repressed memories, fragmentary premonitions of future disasters, and clues that the secretive Memory Ghosts may not be the terrorist front they’re billed to be, not to mention shocking revelations that the massive Memory Frontier corporation, sole source of high-tech recording gadgets that purportedly preserve and restore memories deleted by the Memory Killer, has a nefarious secret agenda. Though an ingenious premise and period references to ’80s-era music add flavor to a plotline expertly boosted by short chapters and multiple narrators, the author not only loses control of his cast—trotting in four new rival memory knifers and a major villain to play scenes and then vanish abruptly—but rather than let the young folk take the lead in saving the world, he goes for multiple timely interventions by grown-ups to rescue them and do most of the heavy lifting to bring the tale to its conveniently tidied-up resolution.

A strong start peters out to a patchy, less-than-memorable finish. (playlist, discussion questions) (Science fiction. 13-18)

Product Details

BN ID: 2940175294911
Publisher: Nelson, Thomas, Inc.
Publication date: 04/11/2023
Series: The Memory Index , #2
Edition description: Unabridged
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