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olliums 's review for:
The Echo Wife
by Sarah Gailey
god this went so hard!!
the general summary is "a woman who works in human cloning research learns that her husband has made a (more complacent and accommodating) clone of her to be his new wife" but this book does KEEP happening. i don't think it's quite THRILLER in style but it certainly has elements. i would say that it does a lot of horror as well, in its twists, in its main character's attitude, and especially in its ending.
one thing that i think rules about this novel in its like, style and what it chooses to detail or not, is how it just hits you in the first 20-30 pages with "yeah we make human adult clones with sentient feelings and thoughts and then we kill them. normal stuff happens all the time" and you the reader are like "okay.. does anyone.. have any type of like RESERVATIONS about that or......" and you don't get ANSWERED about that right away but like..
so i loved that unreliable narrator. i said this re:Plain Bad Heroines but i simply love it when women are shitty and mean and do cruel stuff to each other because they can. thank you Evelyn Caldwell for gaslight gatekeep and girlbossing your way through this book
ending blew me away. chef kiss. incredible.
anyway i'd heard about Sarah Gailey from some of her other books and was mildly interested in Magic for Liars, i thought Upright Women Wanted sounded a little too, twee-Tor.com-novella with a cute tagline, but after reading this book i have no choice BUT to stan so i suppose i'll check em out
the general summary is "a woman who works in human cloning research learns that her husband has made a (more complacent and accommodating) clone of her to be his new wife" but this book does KEEP happening. i don't think it's quite THRILLER in style but it certainly has elements. i would say that it does a lot of horror as well, in its twists, in its main character's attitude, and especially in its ending.
one thing that i think rules about this novel in its like, style and what it chooses to detail or not, is how it just hits you in the first 20-30 pages with "yeah we make human adult clones with sentient feelings and thoughts and then we kill them. normal stuff happens all the time" and you the reader are like "okay.. does anyone.. have any type of like RESERVATIONS about that or......" and you don't get ANSWERED about that right away but like..
Spoiler
yeah! the answer is yes they do! but the MC is so, just, the way she is that you don't really get that sense until partway throughso i loved that unreliable narrator. i said this re:Plain Bad Heroines but i simply love it when women are shitty and mean and do cruel stuff to each other because they can. thank you Evelyn Caldwell for gaslight gatekeep and girlbossing your way through this book
ending blew me away. chef kiss. incredible.
anyway i'd heard about Sarah Gailey from some of her other books and was mildly interested in Magic for Liars, i thought Upright Women Wanted sounded a little too, twee-Tor.com-novella with a cute tagline, but after reading this book i have no choice BUT to stan so i suppose i'll check em out