A review by firequeen_ash23
Echoes by Dylan Page

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5.0

Title: Echoes 
Author: Dylan Page
Series: The Bleeding Hearts Book 5
Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆

The Bleeding Hearts Series has always had such a special place in my heart ever since I read Torment 1 and 2. Now that Dylan Page finally published Echoes (it was totally worth the wait), it's the perfect beautiful ending to this heart-wrenching, intense, emotional rollercoaster of a series. 

Since Echoes is about Shay and Mina's son, Hayden, it feels like the perfect way to honor Shay and Mina. Seeing Hayden and Maddy being haunted by their past was heart-wrenching. It's amazing how much they were able to lean on and love each other while helping one another heal from their trauma. Seeing how Hayden was heavily influenced by events that took place and as well as Keenan and Mina, Shay and James, seeing the man he became was beautiful. I loved that we got to see two sides of him: loving and protective Hayden and the broken and dark Hayden. 

Great advice from James to Hayden:
"You don't want to be the one who hurts the people they love. But don't let others hurt you. It's your life. Yours. Stand up for yourself. There's no shame in that." 

"Defend yourself against those who would hurt you. Cherish those you love." 
-Grandpa J

Echoes is about finding redemption, forgiveness, healing, and in the ending, finding closure. This book was such a beautiful ending to such a good series. I cried, I laughed, I grieved, and I celebrated everything about this story and its characters. I don't think Dylan Page could have written a better, more powerful book to end on. The Bleeding Hearts series will always be one of my top series and I will always recommend it to anyone who loves some darkness and some beauty with raw and gritty emotions that takes you on a rollercoaster of  some highs and some lows. Echoes will break your heart into a million pieces only to turn around and put it all back together again!