Reviews tagging 'Murder'

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

206 reviews

spuriousdiphthongs's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious 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

3.0

Ahh, this sucked me in so fast, but I ended it feeling disappointed in much of the plot. Well-written and easy to read though, I'd recommend for fans of Lucy Foley, etc. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Physical abuse, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Murder, Pregnancy, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Abortion and Alcohol

feuercrux's review against another edition

dark 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Emotional abuse, Trafficking, Grief, and Murder

clairebau's review against another edition

dark hopeful tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I think this may be the perfect book. Just the right amount of speculative/sci-fi stuff for me to go absolutely feral over it, incredibly written characters, emotional plot points. Also, everything in this book just... made sense. Character motivations were logical and well-rounded. Both Evelyn's exposition and the book's symbolism were perfectly, gorgeously done. The twists and reveals were picture-perfect. I love this book. I love Evelyn and Martine. I love to hate Nathan. God, I loved this book.

Jurassic Park with humans, pretty much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Gore, Misogyny, Medical content, Murder, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

maddie_can_read's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

Really interesting book. Enjoyed the science fiction concepts and themes it explored. Enjoyed that it brought up themes of childhood trauma to explain how the main character became so

rigid, mean, intense etc

However I found the writing slogged a bit when talking about the main characters feelings and I found her main insufferable at points

I knew Evelyn wasn't supposed to be lovable, but oh my god, I could not stand her! At the beginning I was even hoping that Martine was going to kill her and take her place or something lol. Wished we saw Martine's perspective. Enjoyed the ending. Some really good scenes like them dealing with the bodies. Also wished the lab assistant came back.

The audiobook narration wasn't my personal favourite, the narrator sounded like they were about to start sobbing multiple times throughout and it gave it a bit of an odd vibe.

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Content Warnings

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

mementomoriiv's review against another edition

dark emotional tense medium-paced

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

3.0

The ideas around cloning are fascinating if you don't ask yourself any questions about them! Overall, this was a decently imagined book that was a tiny bit tedious to read, but worth it for a few hours' entertainment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse and Murder

Moderate: Child abuse

val_theburrowofstories's review against another edition

dark mysterious fast-paced

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

3.5

More than 500 books in my TBR and I bet not even 15 are thriller, but this was one of the few exceptions and I found it available in Libby and felt like giving it a try!

I’m glad to report that it did not disappoint. It was a 3.5 ⭐ for me!

I can see why people could find this boring but I was so intrigued and I understood the character so much that I finished this so quickly, it was entertaining for me.

The husband deserved soooooo much worse than what he got 💀

At least the women ended up thriving and living in peace away from him so I was happy with that ending.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Blood, Abortion, Murder, and Pregnancy

- Abortion:

Evelyn

had an abortion years ago and is briefly mentioned how she went to a clinic and had to recover physically after, not much mentally because she was sure of her decision.

- Pregnancy: We find out about this very early on but

Martine

is pregnant.

- Blood: Because of the murder, and

Martine

bleeds a during pregnancy.

- Death / Murder: There’s someone killed in the beginning, and then we discover there’s way more bodies on that backyard.

sjeast17's review

challenging dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Medical content, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

fujo_cat's review against another edition

dark sad tense fast-paced

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

3.75

Full review: https://fujoreads.tumblr.com/post/751380744419573760/the-echo-wife-by-sarah-gailey-review 

Overall, this was a very enjoyable read after a reading slump. The audiobook was especially nice to listen to, with the whole pacing and personality to the narrator’s voice.

I wasn’t expecting to become friendly with who I thought at first to be one of the main antagonists, and I certainly wasn’t expecting such character development from our MC. All done and said, this was a great read! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder

Moderate: Sexism and Abortion

Minor: Domestic abuse and Sexual violence

eachz's review against another edition

dark slow-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

3.25

I really struggled on and off with finishing this book but ultimately I landed on the side of liking it. A lot of the things that bothered me or seemed confusing early on made a bit more sense when all the pieces started to click together in the end. It was hard at times to get through the first ~half but I think the author ultimately did a good job of exploring the themes they were aiming to explore.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Medical content

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, and Pregnancy

christene_littlelibrary's review against another edition

dark emotional informative mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, and Pregnancy