A review by onegin
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

dark emotional tense fast-paced

• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

 Don’t I love reading about morally questionable people! It’s with morbid fascination I read about the mutual destruction of the main character and her ex-husband: they’re both terrible people, and no-one would deserve to be married to either, but maybe they did deserve each other… And the wider themes of this novel fit well with the personal chemistry of the main character: what is a person? Is a clone of yourself the same as you? Do you own a person you created in a lab? What’s the difference between being created in a womb, without design input, and being created in a lab, where everything from your flesh to your mind has been carefully planned in advance? Can you be yourself, if that “you” is the product of someone’s design? These questions might be philosophically grand, but they’re presented together with a thrilling plot - as reader, you’re on the edge of your seat, wondering if the characters will be able to pull of their schemes (involving getting away with murder), and only once you’ve put down the book do you find yourself asking these questions.