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A review by bookishobserver
Echoes of Grace by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
mysterious
fast-paced
2.0
This book was a mess, I'm sorry. It started out shocking but strong and on paper has everything I like: a main character who sees dead people, has visions, and is trying to solve the mystery of her murdered mother.
What really threw me is a spoiler (so this review is marked as such) because it’s part of the plot (CW for rape): Grace disappears for a week and thinks she’s living with a long-lost grandmother and cousin. She is pursued endlessly by Manuel and is eventually attacked and raped. And then we find out the grandmother and cousin are dead, the house doesn’t exist, and she was raped by the young version of the now-older man who raped and killed her mother. She had to live through her mother’s rape to find the still-living guy. I don’t even know what to think about this.
The ending was rushed, the emotions expressed by Mercy in particular started to feel tedious. At a certain point in the book, there’s a lot more SA than I wanted to read. But by then, I wanted to know what was going on with a particular ghost. I am just so confused by this book. CW also for the death of a small child. I wish I’d known that going in. It’s a thread throughout the whole book.
What really threw me is a spoiler (so this review is marked as such) because it’s part of the plot (CW for rape): Grace disappears for a week and thinks she’s living with a long-lost grandmother and cousin. She is pursued endlessly by Manuel and is eventually attacked and raped. And then we find out the grandmother and cousin are dead, the house doesn’t exist, and she was raped by the young version of the now-older man who raped and killed her mother. She had to live through her mother’s rape to find the still-living guy. I don’t even know what to think about this.
The ending was rushed, the emotions expressed by Mercy in particular started to feel tedious. At a certain point in the book, there’s a lot more SA than I wanted to read. But by then, I wanted to know what was going on with a particular ghost. I am just so confused by this book. CW also for the death of a small child. I wish I’d known that going in. It’s a thread throughout the whole book.