A review by mshusky
The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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

4.0

Dark, disturbing domestic thriller with Sci-Fi elements.  This was brilliant.  Horrifying but brilliant.   
 
Evelyn, the main protagonist, is a very brilliant, ambitious, driven, obsessive scientist.  At the start of the book (omg that first chapter – stunning) wins a prestigious award for her cloning research.    However, what should be her triumph is completely overtaken by the fact that she knows her husband stole her research and has left her for her ‘Stepford Wife’ version clone.   And if you think you know how the novel is going to go from there, you are so wrong.  
 
I want to continue, to explain how the lifelong domestic abuse brings a character who is such an unreliable narrator that others have to explain emotional currency, a character who has been trained to be an unobservant observer.  But if I explain it will create spoilers, let me just say this will stay with you long after you have read this novel. 
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