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Echo by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

6 reviews

torismazarine's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Car accident, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Gore, Grief, Hate crime, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Panic attacks/disorders, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Toxic relationship, Violence, and Vomit

atalea's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

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

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Injury/Injury detail, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Drug use, Body horror, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Confinement, Death of parent, and Medical content

Minor: Car accident, Alcohol, and Child death

shadowspinner's review against another edition

dark tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Addiction and Violence

Minor: Death of parent, Child death, and Car accident

bunniv's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Animal death

Moderate: Suicide, Suicide attempt, Body horror, and Sexual content

Minor: Child death, Car accident, and Self harm

smahlcat's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

As a horror novel, I’d give it one star. As a love story, 3. This book was a slog to read. The actual horror bits were great, but you had to wait a long time to get to them. Sam was one of the most annoying characters I’ve read in a while. And I recognize this is more of a translator issue, but I don’t know anyone in the US who actually says “sis” or “bro” every other sentence when talking to their sibling. There were also some… not plot holes, but not well filled plot points regarding Sam’s childhood trauma, and just who he was as a person in general.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Body shaming, Car accident, Child abuse, Child death, and Death

marleens's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-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

3.5

The opening paragraph creeped me out so much I had to stop reading and look around and breathe. That promised a lot for the rest of the book, but for me it didn’t quite live up to that promise. The horror elements of most of the book were nothing like that first paragraph, and I wonder if my expectations and experience would have been different without that beginning, because I think for a long time I was very much waiting to get back to that specific horror element. That being said, there were plenty of other good creepy moments along the way, and I liked the exploration of obsession and possession, and the things we do (or pretend not to see) for love.
I like Olde Heuvelt’s writing style, but in this book it was a bit odd. Very stream of consciousness sometimes, and a strange mixture of first and second person, often switching mid-sentence. It made sense, because you could definitely feel the characters losing their grip on reality, but it did make it hard to read sometimes. Also, I think it was a bit longer than it needed to be. But I liked our main POVs and the weirdness did often work for me. 
Still, that brilliant creepy opening paragraph might have been the best part for me…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Medical content, Fire/Fire injury, Body horror, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Car accident, Alcohol, and Self harm

Minor: Child death