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3.77 AVERAGE
3.77 AVERAGE
I really enjoyed this one! It’s horror, but it’s more like social horror, if that makes sense. There’s this place called the Echo, a sort of alternate reality that reflects a city’s or neighborhood’s past. Kids around the world are challenging themselves to enter. The only problem is that one you go in, it’s hard to get back out. This particular Echo is the Bronx in the 1970s when it was run down and ignored by basically everyone. It was run by slumlords, and the police and firefighters rarely came in to help the people who lived there. The Echo took all of that and amplified the rage and pain felt by the people who had been abandoned by the rest of the city, turning it into a literal fiery hellhole. Unfortunately, Raquel and her friends have to go into it in order to save her mother and another of their friends who have been infected by the Echo and are dying. Will they make it out alive? And even if they do, will they ever be the same after what happens to them there?
A WILLLDDDDD ass ride. A page turner for sure and def hard to put down!
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Did not really enjoy this audiobook. It's not very often that I say this about an award winning title. It dragged on. I got through the whole thing, hoping it would improve.
It’s too far on the YA side of things for me
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
DNF @ 56%. I really wanted to love this book and I loved the history of the Bronx part most of all but the plot was trying to be far too many things at once. So much so that certain things felt completely random and made no sense and made the story even more confusing
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes