I tend to shy away from horror, typically because I don’t like to be scared - but Our Last Echoes is more of a creepy, chilling horror rather than a scary horror. All this to say, I enjoyed it despite not typically enjoying horror!
Sophia grew up in foster care after her mother disappeared. She was never able to make good connections with others, including foster families, and emotions are difficult for her. She has some random memories of drowning that are unexplained by the stories she’s been told about her early childhood.
But then, she gets a call about a place called Bitter Rock, where she and her mother supposedly were shortly before her mother’s disappearance. Sophia decides to go investigate, and see if she can find anything about her mother or where she might have gone. What Sophia finds at Bitter Rock is chilling, though—half of the island is completely uninhabited, and no one is allowed to go out after dark. She sees things that don’t make any sense, often tied to a mist that appears randomly (and worsens as night arrives).
I could not put down this book. I just had to know what came next, and how everything tied together. Without spoiling anything—the explanation for the mist, and the disappearances on Bitter Rock, was not at all like I was expecting. It definitely leans into the supernatural.
Sophia grew up in foster care after her mother disappeared. She was never able to make good connections with others, including foster families, and emotions are difficult for her. She has some random memories of drowning that are unexplained by the stories she’s been told about her early childhood.
But then, she gets a call about a place called Bitter Rock, where she and her mother supposedly were shortly before her mother’s disappearance. Sophia decides to go investigate, and see if she can find anything about her mother or where she might have gone. What Sophia finds at Bitter Rock is chilling, though—half of the island is completely uninhabited, and no one is allowed to go out after dark. She sees things that don’t make any sense, often tied to a mist that appears randomly (and worsens as night arrives).
I could not put down this book. I just had to know what came next, and how everything tied together. Without spoiling anything—the explanation for the mist, and the disappearances on Bitter Rock, was not at all like I was expecting. It definitely leans into the supernatural.