Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

34 reviews

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Take cloning, moral amboguity, replacements, women in science, and a mysogenistic ex, mix them together with murder and a cover-up and out comes this book. It won't be for everyone, but I rather enjoyed this dark story. Every twist was intriguing and added to the experience nicely. I also really liked how Evelyn is written. She's an interesting character.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

Demanding a woman get pregnant, sexism in science

raekit's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Smart and dark. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Body horror, Child abuse, and Blood

hannahmartinez's review against another edition

2.0

Deeply unpleasant to read

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

catandherbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I'm still not sure how I feel about this book. I didn't hate it, and I didn't love it either... I did really enjoy Evelyn and Martine and their personal development, as well as their interaction with each other

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

Minor: Death of parent

escapinginpaper's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Dysphoria, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Child abuse, Abortion, and Gaslighting

Minor: Alcohol

riereeds's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

It was a good book but I wasn’t very invested. I found it easy to guess what would happen next. The concept as a whole is a good idea but it feels like there are short cuts to get to plot points. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Gore, Infertility, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse

jojo_'s review against another edition

dark mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Violence, Medical content, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Alcohol

Minor: Abortion

pages_and_cacti's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Synopsis: Dr. Evelyn Caldwell is an award winning geneticist. Martin’s is a genetically cloned replica created from her research by her Evelyn’s husband, Nathan. When Evelyn finds out that he is cheating on her with Martins, she leaves him. When Nathan turns up dead, both wives join together to clean up. 

My Thoughts: This was my first novel by Sarah Gailey and will be a fan from here on out. This one was a wild ride and really made you think about the ethical, moral and consequences of human cloning. It was a lot to wrap your head around at times but worth every minute of reading. The consequences of actions were well thought out. What an incredibly thought evoking novel.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Medical trauma, Abortion, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

taylor13's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, and Injury/Injury detail

blackcatkai's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

CW: murder, death, pregnancy, casual ableism, blood, death, science experiments, violence, infidelity, sexism/misogyny, child abuse, abortion mentioned, domestic violence mentioned (off-page), alcohol use, medical content

I would not categorise this one as a thriller, but probably more a contemporary scifi suspense novel. I think it'd be a good intro novel if you want to get into either scifi or thrillers/suspense while being more into the other genre. This was my first Gailey novel and I will DEFINITELY be reading more of their work in the future. I had a ton of fun with this one & flew threw it. It's on the shorter end, length-wise, but the pacing was well done & characters engaging. Evelyn is awful & I love her. Martine deserved better & I honestly wouldn't mind a short story taking place a bit in the future after this story ends just to see how everyone turns out.

A great way to ease into the spooky season!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Minor: Ableism, Infertility, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Abortion