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The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

61 reviews

mfsquared's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Murder, and Medical content

Minor: Sexual violence, Suicide, and Abortion

geekmom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Wow. Sarah Gailey just keeps getting better and better at writing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, and Emotional abuse

lettuce_read's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Infidelity, Murder, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Minor: Abortion

sunsetcity's review against another edition

emotional informative tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I went into this book thinking it would be one genre, and was pleasantly surprised by the direction it took! In this book we follow Evelyn, who is recently divorced and has been recognized for her work with cloning humans. What she didn't realize that the person her ex-husband left her for was a clone of herself. Not only that, but the clone, Marteen, has killed her ex-husband and needs her help.

I thought this one was going to be a mystery/thriller, but it leaned pretty heavily into scifi. There was a lot of discussion about how cloning humans work and the ethics involved in their creation in this world. I really enjoyed learning the theoretical parts of what Evelyn was doing in her lab and how they made replicas of various people. I also enjoyed Evelyn as a character. She was very no nonsense and very direct in her thoughts and actions.  I also enjoyed seeing how Marteen changed throughout the story and how external factors really influenced her personality later in the story. 

There were a lot of twists and turn throughout the books, but the end of the story was a little anti climactic comparatively and I couldn't help but feel a little let down by that fact. But overall I enjoyed this one! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Toxic relationship, and Violence

kkpwnall's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Grief, Infidelity, Medical content, Medical trauma, Misogyny, Murder, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

Moderate: Abortion, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

kelseyland's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

An extremely dark book about power, abuse, identity and cycles of violence. Lots of twists and turns in this one. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Child abuse, Medical content, Murder, Violence, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Blood and Body horror

jamieleepilk's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Medical content, Murder, Physical abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Child abuse and Confinement

mar's review against another edition

dark tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

holy fucking shit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Blood, Death, Gore, Infidelity, Murder, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Medical content and Suicide

Minor: Misogyny

alopexi's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Murder, and Child abuse

Moderate: Body horror

Minor: Sexual violence and Suicide

katiemack's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I received an eARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Gailey has some compelling ideas here, and the book starts out strong with Evelyn's biting commentary and observations. Unfortunately, while mostly entertaining, the handful of plotholes and the random tangents detracted from the story. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence, Physical abuse, and Emotional abuse