The idea of this book really intrigued me, but the actual story confused me. While concept of this book is very interesting, I felt like Robins spent a lot of time telling me about how other people in the world lived their life and very little time about Peregrine’s grief over Poppy—which is unfortunate as that is what most intrigued me when I read the blurb. Every new chapter was practically a new person, and it was all very difficult to keep straight. There are a lot of historical aspects to this and it was interesting to see how AI was linked to sociological events. This wasn’t it for me, but I still enjoyed the opportunity to read this book!!

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for the opportunity to read this book before release in exchange for an honest review!

I was very intrigued by the synopsis of this book, tying AI and the conception of a child and mystery of her death together, but I found it incredibly hard to follow and honestly struggled to keep reading. I pushed through hoping it would somehow make sense, but each section felt rather random and much of the book seemed irrelevant to the story. These puzzle-style books are the rage in some circles, and I have liked a few, this one just didn’t suit me.

Eden’s writing was beautiful, and I believe if the book were laid out differently I would have enjoyed it more.

The idea of this book at the core is good, and had a lot of potential. However, it failed to deliver. The writing style is interesting, it is written purely in obituaries related to the people that contribute to the story. The description said implied it was a story that shows what it means to be human and tells a story about a grieving AI. I did not feel connected to the character at all, and there wasn't enough of peregrine in the story to establish that connection. the story wasn't gripping. I found myself uninterested and struggling to continue reading. Reading this book felt like doomscrolling. I doubt I could've gotten through it if i didn't have to travel a lot today. The idea is great, but the execution just ended up being lackluster for me.

Thank you NetGalley for this ARC.

The blurb of this book really got me hooked, unfortunately this book just fell short for me. I found it difficult to follow at times. I wish we would've had more from Peregrine and Poppy. I think what the book promised to deliver and what we ended up with are two different things and it was just a miss for me personally.

The writing is really good. I enjoyed reading about the life of each character's unique experience in life and about their death. But I wished I could read more about the mother-daughter duo. Even though every character were related to one another somehow and ultimately had impacted the birth of the ai and poppy and all the struggles they've been through, it gives us little information about the fugitive AI. I really felt bored by the time I finished the book.

The description promised a story of grief of the AI so I was expecting just their stories and struggles. So, I'm kind of dissappointed but I'm excited to see what other people might think about this book.

Remember You Will Die has a really interesting concept. In the future, an AI called Peregrine has given birth to a child. The child dies (not a spoiler - it's in the book's blurb). The story of the events leading up to and following this are told primarily through the obituaries of the people involved.

While I loved the concept and appreciated the effort, I found the reading of this book somewhat challenging. I found it a bit difficult at times to follow the story, as the timeline jumped across centuries. Also, I can't say I am hugely expert in obituaries but there were definitely a few instances where I thought...no, obituaries are not written like this.

So, while this one was overall a miss for me, I did like the concept and aim and I will be looking up other boos from this author.

Reading the blurb for this ARC, I felt it was going to be a really heart wrenching story about grief and the phenomena on AI having feelings. However, this was not the case. Robins uses a format where the story is only told in obituaries. While these obituaries interconnect with one another, it didn't give me what I ultimately wanted which was listed directly in the blurb:

"about one AI woman grappling with her grief after the mysterious death of her human daughter, and wondering what it really means to be human."

There weren't many personal stories being told about Poppy and Peregrine, and due to this, I lost interest pretty quickly. The blurb does mention obituaries telling the tale, spanning over centuries, but I didn't see many correlations between most of these obituaries and Peregrine's grief over Poppy.

Overall, I thought the concept was very interesting, and it definitely keeps you intrigued, but I just wanted more about the grief than about other people in relation to the AI. I also feel that there was so much trying to be said, that it wasn't fleshed out enough. I've never read anything like this, and I felt that was intriguing enough to keep going, but I think I would have had a better experience with focus on one plotline than trying to push all these concepts into one short novel. However, Robins has beautiful story telling and writing, and I will try to read something else in the future!

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I'm not going to lie - I was going to give this strange sounding ARC review a pass, but then I read the A.I. angle, and I'm a really sucker for strange A.I. concepts and Remember You Will Die had the strangest I'd seen yet (the story revolves around an A.I. that has given birth).

That said - strangest dominates this tome. As per the description the majority of the page-time in this book is from obituaries, occasional etymology lessons, and the odd official document. There is no MC per se, no core plotline or being middle and end exactly. I was quite pleasantly surprised to find myself breezing through this book despite specific typical writing tropes.

The overall effect is a sort of extreme world building - while there is a story to follow throughout the layers, the main effect is creating a strong sense of past-present?-and-future. And this book does have some very unusual alternate history (and even a brief dabble of time-travel). Some of the alt history felt somewhat edgy, I'm not sure if anything offense happens but I can see how some might find this squiffy (there is an alternative history thing where Anne Frank survives).

Finally I found it interesting how concepts around A.I. were linked to other major sociological events - AIDS, Global Warming, Sexism, Roman History(?)

Anyway I certainly don't regret reading this book - but I will say its a strange deep dive - I'm interested to hear other's thoughts on this!