The Last Truth

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eBook

English language

Published Feb. 21, 2022 by Tom Doherty Associates.

ISBN:
9781250874351
3 stars (1 review)

In AnaMaria Curtis's "The Last Truth", a Tor.com Original, a runaway and indentured thief, Eri must provide a new secret to open each new lock, at the cost of her own memory.

Hundreds of locks later, Eri can barely recall her own past. An unanticipated alliance with a musician may prove the key to both their freedoms—if Eri doesn't lose herself in the process.

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reviewed The Last Truth by AnaMaria Curtis

A story about breaking locks with the truth and forgetting about yourself

3 stars

An interesting story about an indentured lock breaker on a ship who would be free after this final trip when she breaks the locks in the hold of the ship for her master, who steals the items. But to break the magical locks, she must tell a truth about herself to the locks, and each truth is lost to her in the telling. In this story, she meets a musician, whose music has the power to make people dance and possibly forget (or remember) themselves. Together, they plan to escape their indentured lives, but only once the thief makes one final effort to break an intricate lock with the last of her truths, and if the musician can help her remember herself.