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A review by merrinish
Echo in Onyx by Sharon Shinn
4.0
I don't want to spoil this for anyone who might want to read it so basically I loved this but I think I would rather have read it instead of listened to it. The concept of an echo of a person following them around but also completely silent is, not gonna lie, creepy? Like pretty dang creepy. But I will say she thought about almost every aspect of how it would work, so good world building. I do have some questions about going to the bathroom but not, like, mechanical, mostly I just think talking about how every bathroom has four . . . chamber pots or whatever would have been some funny content.
Content warning for a rape scene in the middle.
Everything else is a spoiler.
Like I'm just not wild about the plot line that this lady gets sexually assaulted, her echo kills the guy that does it, who just so happens to be the bastard son of the king, so she gets SENTENCED TO DEATH.
What kind of justice system is this?
It's a fantasy land, Merrin, she has literal identical copies of herself, who says justice has to be fair in the feudal system, right? At least it wasn't ACTUALLY a "kill your gays" moment, and she does get her lady love in the end. All she had to lose were her shadows, which would have made going off with her lady love impossible. There just wasn't a truly good ending for her, which also makes me sad.
Anyway, I loved the main romance plotline, Nico is a flipping dream. I loved the friendship between Brianna and Marguerite. (There may be spelling errors in those names but I listened to it instead of reading it myself, so.)
A solid showing from my friend ShaShi, and I'm excited that the other two are already available.
Content warning for a rape scene in the middle.
Everything else is a spoiler.
Spoiler
So I love that Sharon Shinn finally had her first gay character, so imagine my HORROR when that gay character gets frickin murdered at the end. Except she doesn't, she gets to run off to another country with her lady love, and it only cost her her echoes, except that's also horrifically sad.Like I'm just not wild about the plot line that this lady gets sexually assaulted, her echo kills the guy that does it, who just so happens to be the bastard son of the king, so she gets SENTENCED TO DEATH.
What kind of justice system is this?
It's a fantasy land, Merrin, she has literal identical copies of herself, who says justice has to be fair in the feudal system, right? At least it wasn't ACTUALLY a "kill your gays" moment, and she does get her lady love in the end. All she had to lose were her shadows, which would have made going off with her lady love impossible. There just wasn't a truly good ending for her, which also makes me sad.
Anyway, I loved the main romance plotline, Nico is a flipping dream. I loved the friendship between Brianna and Marguerite. (There may be spelling errors in those names but I listened to it instead of reading it myself, so.)
A solid showing from my friend ShaShi, and I'm excited that the other two are already available.