The Echo Wife follows Evelyn Caldwell who genetically figured out how to make clones of people. She has won a huge award and her dreams are coming true. Until she realizes her husband Nathan is cheating on her. When she goes to investigate, she sees Nathan has a different life from theirs together. She knocks on the door to Nathan’s other home to come face to face with herself. She has a clone and her name is Martine, but Evelyn didn’t create her. Nathan decided to create a better version of Evelyn that was all the things he wished Evelyn was. To make matters worse, a few months later Evelyn gets a call from Martine saying it’s an emergency, Evelyn goes over and finds Nathan dead on the floor. Martine has murdered Nathan.
I really enjoyed this book and honestly the unique storyline had me hooked from the first couple of chapters. I loved how this was a not so distant future and it wasn’t over the top with the scientific elements that were about the cloning process. I was actually intrigued with how cloning worked, and enjoyed the parts where Evelyn was in the lab working. As I said before this is a super unique book, Nathan literally made a better wife for himself because Evelyn wasn’t enough? Not only that he just made a better version of Evelyn, I think that was so crazy. I couldn’t imagine seeing a clone of myself. The author’s writing was excellent and actually had me enjoying both Evelyn and Martine.
The only aspect that really made me frustrated was the ending. I didn’t feel as though anything big happened, it just kind of wrapped some things up and that was the end. I was expecting either a huge plot twist as the ending, or some dramatic scene including the main characters. I just felt that it was very watered down and didn’t have a lot intensity. I think if the blurb didn’t make it sound like a thriller, I wouldn’t have been expecting such a huge mind blowing ending. The book read like science fiction, more than anything and I’m fine with that. It was a great book and one I will think about for quite some time, it just wasn’t as thrilling as I was expecting.
I really enjoyed this book and honestly the unique storyline had me hooked from the first couple of chapters. I loved how this was a not so distant future and it wasn’t over the top with the scientific elements that were about the cloning process. I was actually intrigued with how cloning worked, and enjoyed the parts where Evelyn was in the lab working. As I said before this is a super unique book, Nathan literally made a better wife for himself because Evelyn wasn’t enough? Not only that he just made a better version of Evelyn, I think that was so crazy. I couldn’t imagine seeing a clone of myself. The author’s writing was excellent and actually had me enjoying both Evelyn and Martine.
The only aspect that really made me frustrated was the ending. I didn’t feel as though anything big happened, it just kind of wrapped some things up and that was the end. I was expecting either a huge plot twist as the ending, or some dramatic scene including the main characters. I just felt that it was very watered down and didn’t have a lot intensity. I think if the blurb didn’t make it sound like a thriller, I wouldn’t have been expecting such a huge mind blowing ending. The book read like science fiction, more than anything and I’m fine with that. It was a great book and one I will think about for quite some time, it just wasn’t as thrilling as I was expecting.