Review: New angle on amnesia
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 20, 2011
You might think amnesia could not be done in an original way, but Erastes manages it by omitting the recovery of memory.  Officers Rudolph and Matthias are lovers just about to defy all convention and run off together in the middle of an active Prussian war.  During the last battle Rudolph is thrown from his horse and loses two years of memory.  Matthias is heartbroken and follows him back to Berlin hoping his memory will return.  Instead Rudolph rekindles a bad relationship he has forgotten the end of.  As said above, what makes this amnesia story different is that as far as one knows Rudolph may never regain his full memory, but all will not be lost if he and Matthias simply fall in love again.  Just the refreshing setting of 19th century Prussia makes this novel well worth a read.