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Ocean's Echo by Everina Maxwell

31 reviews

kal517's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, and War

Moderate: Death, Violence, and Death of parent

Minor: Torture

shelvesofivy's review against another edition

emotional funny 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Emotional abuse, and Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

Minor: Death of parent and War

imds's review against another edition

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Physical abuse, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Grief, Medical trauma, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, and War

tincrumbs's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

5.0

I adore this book. Everything about it. I have three favorite novels (because there's too many good books to pick just one): The Great Gatsby, The Wizard of Oz, and this one, Ocean's Echo. That may seem like too high of praise, to put it alongside classics, but let me assure you that it's wholly what my heart believes. I wish I could pinpoint why I love this book so much, but I really can't. Just something about it took a hold of my soul and now a part of it will always be with me. I loved the characters and I loved seeing them grow and get the happy ending they deserved. I'm just obsessed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Death and Violence

hendrixpants's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and War

pitsikakku's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Death, Drug use, Violence, and War

Moderate: Suicide attempt

kimu's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I didn’t love this book as much as the first book, but am still glad that I read it. One of the main characters was just someone who I strongly disliked from the start, and since the book spent a long time initially on how unlikeable he was, it started off on the wrong foot for me. That said, I’m still rating it quite highly because overall the story was enjoyable and the writing is truly fantastic. Also, while not the emphasis of the book, the way the author smoothly works with gender and gender terminology is phenomenal. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical trauma, and War

Minor: Death of parent

annoyedhumanoid's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced

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

3.5

i really enjoyed Everina Maxwell's first book, Winter's Orbit, set in the same universe but entirely separate, so i was of course very excited for their next one. Ocean's Echo went even more for plot and even less for romance than its predecessor, which was already notable for how plot-heavy it was for a book billed as a romance; unfortunately, i enjoyed the plot much less this time around. the whole Power Rangers combine-into-one but with minds ("syncing") became monotonous and laborious. the book could have been 20% shorter, but even if it were, the amount of payoff at the end still wouldn't feel sufficient. basically, not my favorite journey and a very meager reward for my efforts. i still recommend Winter's Orbit though

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing and War

Moderate: Ableism, Addiction, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Body horror, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Slavery, Terminal illness, Torture, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Abandonment, and Alcohol

re: ableism: people have genetically-inherited mind-reading/commanding abilities, and mind-readers are stigmatized. re: slavery: discussions of aforementioned mind-readers being conscripted into the military and basically worked to death. re: terminal illness: mcs find themselves in an untenable, rapidly worsening mental state

quirkykayleetam's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

4.0

I knew I was going to be a sucker for this book the moment that the two main characters were introduced as incredibly different, stubbornly loving little shits.

Tennalhin uses his charisma to cause chaos in the social situations he's forced into as the son of the Senator. Surit is a perfect soldier and serial loophole abuser who uses his perfect memory of army regulations to do The Right Thing...and the exactly opposite of what his superiors wanted him to do.

These two men find themselves forcibly linked in the midst of a much larger conflict involving military coups, alien remnants, government conspiracies, murder attempts, and mass brain washings as they learn to find themselves through loving each other...and maybe saving their galaxy along the way.

Extra points for going beyond one concept of non-binary genders and showing how that has always worked in this world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Drug use, Terminal illness, Transphobia, Violence, Outing, and War

Minor: Gun violence, Sexual content, Vomit, Death of parent, and Abandonment

wilybooklover's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Confinement, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Violence, Kidnapping, Grief, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and War

Minor: Sexual content