The Echo Wife

by Sarah Gailey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 125017466X
• ISBN13: 9781250174666
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

So Crazy!

This story was so crazy! At first I thought I knew where this story was going but then wow it took off and then that was it, I was hooked! Evelyn is an amazing award-winning scientist who is doing a lot of ground-breaking work. She is married to or was married to a man named Nate. She was until he left her for her clone. But the clone is different. Nate created her the way he wanted Evelyn to be. That is until the clone realizes that she is seen as someone who doesn't have a choice. Until she makes her choice. At that point Evelyn gets involved in order to protect her hard-work and ensure it doesn't ruin the career she has worked so hard and sacrificed for. I won't go into the details of how Evelyn gets Martine (her clone) out of this crazy mess but it's good and clean. I felt truly satisfied by the end of this story and I actually really found the ending comforting. I would definitely recommend! A different kind of thriller that anyone will enjoy!

Clever, unsettling, domestic sci-fi thriller

The Echo Wife is set in the near future when the science of cloning human has advanced, and the laws surrounding it have changed. Evelyn Caldwell is a brilliant, driven, award-winning scientist who has pioneered advancements in human cloning. She knows what she wants and is clear about it. Evelyn's ex-husband Nathan has used her techniques to make a more docile, agreeable version of her called Martine. The story starts with Nathan's murder. I won't describe the plot more so as to avoid spoilers. The science in this book is absolutely fascinating and the story is well-written, riveting and compelling. I was unable to put it down. The characters are morally grey at the very least and the story raises many ethical issues regarding human cloning. Evelyn's character is well-developed and she grows throughout the story as she learns to become more empathetic. The Echo wife is clever, dark, unsettling and calibrated for maximum squirm. I loved it.