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A review by jessdekkerreads
The Echoes by Evie Wyld
4.5
I love a good ghost story and I love Evie Wyld, so when I heard about her newest novel, I just knew it was the perfect combination and immediately preordered it from Blackwells. And I wasn’t wrong, it was indeed the perfect combination for me.
“Love is what brings about a ghost - isn’t it? The unfinished business of love.”
We open with Max, now a ghost, roaming the home he had shared with his girlfriend, Hannah, searching for answers as to how he died, but also observing her move through grief after his death. We are shown the Past, not only Hannah’s and Max’s relationship prior to the loss, but Hannah’s family’s secrets she has long since buried. We are given many POVs, and timelines, but I loved the twists and turns Wyld presented to us.
A layered story, unexpectedly full of humor, Max as a ghost narrator, provides so much levity to the story, which I loved. Wyld is an expert at revealing just enough and then putting all of the puzzle pieces together in such a clever way that I found myself wanting to reread the book right after I finished the last page. The story felt emotional, gothic, haunting, subtle and vivid.
What you’ll find: what we leave behind (the echoes), secrets, burying our past; mortality, last moments that you don’t realize will be your last; finding the courage to break generational trauma; complicated love and relationships; addiction and sexual assault; sibling dynamics, particularly sisterhood; abuse of Aboriginals, colonization and murder of Indigenous people.
I have not stopped thinking about this book since I finished it. Will be adding to my favorites shelf.
Thank you for your words @eviewyld , yet again you’ve captured my heart with these characters ❣️
“Love is what brings about a ghost - isn’t it? The unfinished business of love.”
We open with Max, now a ghost, roaming the home he had shared with his girlfriend, Hannah, searching for answers as to how he died, but also observing her move through grief after his death. We are shown the Past, not only Hannah’s and Max’s relationship prior to the loss, but Hannah’s family’s secrets she has long since buried. We are given many POVs, and timelines, but I loved the twists and turns Wyld presented to us.
A layered story, unexpectedly full of humor, Max as a ghost narrator, provides so much levity to the story, which I loved. Wyld is an expert at revealing just enough and then putting all of the puzzle pieces together in such a clever way that I found myself wanting to reread the book right after I finished the last page. The story felt emotional, gothic, haunting, subtle and vivid.
What you’ll find: what we leave behind (the echoes), secrets, burying our past; mortality, last moments that you don’t realize will be your last; finding the courage to break generational trauma; complicated love and relationships; addiction and sexual assault; sibling dynamics, particularly sisterhood; abuse of Aboriginals, colonization and murder of Indigenous people.
I have not stopped thinking about this book since I finished it. Will be adding to my favorites shelf.
Thank you for your words @eviewyld , yet again you’ve captured my heart with these characters ❣️