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A review by jswense
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.5
The Echo Wife pulls together the best parts of Frankenstein, the Stepford Wives, and a bit of Bluebeard to deliver a gorgeously tense book that is impossible to put down.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Murder
All of the physical abuse happens off stage, the emotional abuse is on the page A lot of it is perpetrated the narrator
Suicide: the narrator stages a corpse to make the cause of death appear to be suicide
Murder is an important plot point but all of it occurs off stage