The Echo Wife

The Echo Wife

2021 • 256 pages

Ratings125

Average rating3.7

15

Evelyn is an award winning scientist; something something clone technology and her husband is having an affair with a clone who looks just like Evelyn but is everything Evelyn is not. If that's not a creepy, sinister premise, I don't know what is.

The Echo Wife is good, not excellent. The first half builds beautifully toward a grand finale but it doesn't quite deliver what I was promised. Or maybe I was expecting something extra dark and twisty (and something is truly wrong with me). Evelyn is quite the anti hero and I love it, but I wish Gailey had spent my words building her up through her surroundings and relations (instead of isolating her so much).

If you like the premise, definitely read it!

April 4, 2022