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The Echo Wife

Auteur(s): Sarah Gailey
Narrateur(s): Xe Sands
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Sarah Gailey's The Echo Wife is “a trippy domestic thriller which takes the extramarital affair trope in some intriguingly weird new directions.” (Entertainment Weekly)

I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there in front of me, but it still took me so long to see the person I had married.

It took me so long to hate him.

Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell’s award-winning research. She’s patient and gentle and obedient. She’s everything Evelyn swore she’d never be.

And she’s having an affair with Evelyn’s husband.

Now, the cheating bastard is dead, and both Caldwell wives have a mess to clean up.

Good thing Evelyn Caldwell is used to getting her hands dirty.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

©2021 Sarah Gailey (P)2021 Macmillan Audio Fantastique Fiction Génie génétique Science-fiction Suspense Thrillers domestiques Thrillers et romans à suspense Mariage Crime Domestic Suspense
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I had no clue where this was going when it started but I loved all the plot twists and where it ended. Makes you think about life.

Plot twist after plot twist

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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 inobservant 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.

Narration was excellent, giving Evelyn the needed emotionlessness needed. But I do wish that the acknowledgements at the end of the book has been included (some of which are chilling)

Disturbing, Brilliant, Domestic Thriller

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Repeated phrases did not add to the story and were annoying after a whole. The protagonist is unlikeable and the resolution to the climax/problem is hurried and not well thought out.

Too many unanswered questions

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When I read the storyline I thought maybe, maybe it will be interesting, maybe it will be entertaining. In the end it was much more. It asked interesting questions about morality, about responsibility, about love, without presuming to have the answers. I was provoked to consider my own assumptions. And was charmed by the two broken but lovely women at the heart of this story. Also the narrator was perfect and really made it her own. Great performance, bravo!

Surprisingly brilliant

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Such a worthy performance of a deeply complicated and flawed protagonist. It's twisty as many have said, but not in an over-the-top crime thriller sort of way. Remarkably thoughtful and restrained.

subtle and chilling

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An original and fascinating premise is overshadowed by its flaws.
A book on cloning humans feels hollow and lazy if it doesn't do reasonable justice to ethics. This book falls flat on both the discussion and addressing of ethics and application to character growth. In addition, the book gets incredibly technical about certain lab processes and then is sparse on some details when it comes to plot and plausibility.has potential to be adapted into a compelling miniseries if someone more experienced can adapt the premise into a smoother and more well-rounded story.
There's also a puzzling lack of redemption for the main character. it feels awkward and clunky how it ends without her really acknowledging her flaws in a meaningful way to make change. it more seems like she's forced into a better place through circumstance.

flaws overwhelm good premise

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