My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares

Daniel is a man who is reincarnating from one live to another, living in many different countries and continents. One thing in al these lives of Daniel stays the same and is the red line in the story: his search for his one true love from his first live, Sophia. He finds her back in the present time, in 2009, when she is reincarnated in a college girl named Lucy.Daniel has "the memory", the ability to recall past lives and recognize the souls of those he's previously known. It's a gift and a curse. The story takes place in modern day and in retrospective,switching from the point of view of Daniel and Sophia. Will he find her back and will she remember him too?

When I first heard about this new novel(the launch day is July 1) I had a very different idea of it then after I have read it now.
The overall idea of the story is very original, it is not often that the main characters are reincarnating so many times (and die so many times, wow!)and I really liked the red line of lovers who find eachother back in a different time and place where, hopefully, their lives will be better than when they died tragically or couldn't be together for many reasons.

The trap of the reincarnation idea is that the story becomes confusing and the characters aren't making any progression at all. This really came to mind when I was reading it. At some points I got the idea that the dying and rebirthing of Daniel was repeating itself in every chapter, and that was sometimes a bit too much of it and made it unbelievable, wich ofcourse is allowed when the story is fantasy-like, but as a reader I like it as the author writes it in a way that makes it believable for the reader, and I had my doubts about this with Daniel and his many times of dying and coming alive again.

My Name is Memory is very different than the YA novels I know from Ann Brashares, step in with a blank mind when you start reading it and be surprised!