This is the third book I've read author Sarah Gailey, and while each book has been wildly different from the others, all of them have been consistently well done and interesting, and as much as I've enjoyed the others, The Echo Wife is absolutely their best yet. I always have a bit of trepidation going into a science fiction novel as it's far from my standard genre. While I don't have enough background to say definitively whether or not the science in this book is sound, to someone like myself whose knowledge of the science of cloning begins and ends with some violets in high school science, nothing stood out as questionable, and it was all explained in ways that I could either comprehend or at least say "sure, that works for me" to. Beyond that, this book was filled with turns that made for a ridiculously compelling story, and one that will challenge readers and their thoughts on bioethics.

**4.5-stars rounded up**

Oh wow, you really brought this full circle, didn't you, Sarah Gailey?! You clever, clever, clever human. I read the majority of The Echo Wife in one sitting today and I had so much fun with it. There are a lot of great themes and ideas to think about with this one. This is the first novel I have read by Sarah Gailey, but absolutely will not be the last. I have already added three of their other books to my TBR.

This novel follows Evelyn Caldwell, who is an award-winning research scientist in the field of genetics; more specifically, her work deals with genetic cloning. We hear this entire story through Evelyn's perspective, which personally, I found quite refreshing actually. It seems like most novels I read are multiple perspective, so it was nice to just sit with one narrator the whole way through.

Evelyn's husband, Nathan, has betrayed her with another woman who just so happens to be a clone of Evelyn. Essentially, he has replaced her with a version that will be more compliant with his wants and needs. More docile in their relationship, something Evelyn never was. When Nathan ends up dead, Evelyn's clone, Martine, suddenly becomes a very real problem for her. One that could end her career as she knows it. Evelyn needs to get control of the situation, and Martine, before everything she has worked for is taken from her.

As Evelyn and Martine begin to work together, Evelyn is shocked when she begins having actual feelings for the clone; like she is a real person.

This novel explores so many fascinating, and frankly, frightening topics. Set in the not too distant future, it examines the ethical issues that arise when you are involved in cloning and cloning research. What makes something human? What are the parameters that should be followed in this type of research? What if something goes wrong, or a clone goes rouge? Who has the authority to decide the clone's fate?

In addition to the fabulous scientific elements, I really enjoyed getting to know Evelyn Caldwell. I felt she was such a well-developed character. We learn how Evelyn's parent's relationship shaped the woman she would become. Her parents had quite a contentious relationship and Evelyn was the silent observer to it all.

Her Father was brilliant, he taught Evelyn so much and set her on the career path she ends up on, but he also was a raging tyrant. Her Mother taught her another set of skills entirely. While she viewed her Mother as mild and cowardly, her experiences with Nathan and Martine caused her to re-evaluate those beliefs.

While this is just a subplot to the greater story, it contributed quite a bit to my enjoyment. I felt it added a lot of depth to Evelyn's character and allowed me to better understand her choices and motivations. I really connected with Evelyn. I'm sure many will find her cold, but I think she is more determined and driven than uncaring. Choices she made, if made by a man, would probably be viewed differently by a lot of people.

Overall, this is an extremely intelligent and well-constructed story. My one very small negative, was that I was pitched Thriller and was expecting that. To me, this really isn't much of a Thriller even though it is quite compelling. I do highly recommend this. I think it would make an incredible Book Club selection, or Buddy Read, as there are a ton of deep issues to discuss.

Thank you so much to the publisher, Tor, for providing me with a copy of this to read and review. I cannot wait to pick up more titles from this author!

The Echo Wife is insanely good and the premise insanely terrifying! Two of my favorite genres, Sci-fi and Domestic Thriller, collide in a story that is so brilliantly plotted and so wickedly inventive that I didn’t think the last of the twists could surprise me. So. Wrong.

Human cloning is explored in all the ways it could go wrong and what could happen if this knowledge were in the wrong hands. Evelyn Caldwell is an award-winning scientist in the field of cloning research. She is cold and unemotional, only wanting to spend her days in the lab with her research. Her ex-husband Nathan, also a scientist decides to use Evelyn’s research to clone an exact replica of her but one that is of a more, shall we say, compliant nature. This, of course, goes against not only moral ethics but legal, as well, so when Evelyn’s clone, Martine, kills Nathan who does she call? Evelyn! Evelyn, not wanting to be humiliated or to lose her grant money or status, decides to help Martine. Things just progress from here and get a little messy … literally.

This is such a compelling story with so many hairpin twists! It’s not just the thriller part that kept me reading but the actual moral dilemma that comes with the concept of cloning humans, for any purpose. Evelyn approaches it with such cold detachment, the disposal of ‘biomedical waste’ aka cloned humans that don’t make the grade is, partly, where the ethical dilemma comes in. When we meet Martine, she’s real and she’s alive. She has feelings and emotions, she’s not just a clump of unfeeling cells to be used at a scientist’s whim. So, yes, I was thinking of these things as I read/listened, too.

I’d highly recommend this one to any fan of the genre(s). It’s a quick read with a lot of shocking plot twists and will probably give you pause to think about some of todays scientific advancements.

I want to thank Tor Books and Macmillan Audio for the gifted copy and an ALC.

Really cool premise about a man who clones his wife and makes her into the kind of wife he wants. Reminded me of a couple of my favorite movies: The Stepford Wives and Ex Machina--but takes off in quite different directions from either of those. I was absolutely riveted by the first 3/4 but didn't really buy into the last quarter. Still, a really intriguing and enjoyable book!

I recieved an eARC from netgalley, but all opinions are my own.

Wow. I picked this up because cloning is such a fascinating subject. This blew me away.

At first I was a little unsure because Evelyn's voice is a bit distant at first. But, it was absolutely worth sticking with it.

I absolutely loved how unlikeable I found Evelyn, I feel it added so much to the story and made it more compelling. The writing is amazing and now I will be scouring the interwebs for more of Sarah Gailey's stories.

The atmosphere. Wow. I was on the edge of my seat almost the entire time. There were so many twists and turns in this which kept is so compelling and intriguing.

I really loved how within the story there was a bigger conversation about humanity and ethics. It definitely made me question what I believed.

Overall this book was gripping and intelligent, and I have to recommend this to anyone who loves thrillers or genetics.

Amazing.

The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
Pub date 2/16/21

First, I want to thank NetGalley and Macmillan Tor/Forge for the ARC.

This book is a bit strange but in a good way, in a Sarah Gailey way.

Evelyn is a brilliant researcher whose award-winning work on cloning takes up all of her time to the detriment of her marriage. However, her husband, Nathan, has found a way to occupy himself and get what he really wants out of Evelyn, and the result is Martine. So begins a twisted tale that is at times very sad, a lot fascinating, and even a little bit happy.

This is my second Sarah Gailey book, and it will definitely not be my last. There is some "navel-gazing" as Evelyn calls her own internal reflections which got a little frustrating at times, but all in all, this was an interesting look at the logistical consequences, even more so than the usual moral consequences, of cloning.

4.5/5 stars

Flaws are often inherited. Those who make and/or raise children push forward their strengths and weaknesses, partly preforming who they are. It’s an endless echo that is heard from generation to generation and burrows itself deep into one's psyche. That burrowing can prompt people to commit misdeeds that scar their children, as their monstrosities migrate to kin. But The Echo Wife proffers that while some might always hear that echo and be tempted to mimic it back, they have the choice to resist it. Because they are not clones of what came before, but wholly different people with nuances of their own.

If The Echo Wife just tackled that theme, it would already be a powerful novel, but it’s more than that. Sarah Gailey writes with exacting prose to deliver an engaging story with a wide web of threads and ideas, all coming together in a way that should please both readers of mind-bending sci-fi and popular thrillers. It balances incisive character moments, the ramifications of cloning, and twists that should still pack a punch whether you predict them or not.

I will give a brief, withholding synopsis because I want to avoid spoilers. Evelyn is a researcher designing clones. She’s also dealing with her husband, Nathan’s affair and separation. Things become thornier when she realizes the woman he’s in a relationship with, named Martine, is a clone of herself—only, parts of the clone have deviated from Evelyn's personality to turn her into Nathan’s ideal woman. And that clone is inexplicably pregnant, a thing that Evelyn thought was a biological impossibility for clones. Murder shortly ensues and complex, highly-charged interactions are offered aplenty.

This is a very insular novel, and that’s a compliment. It’s difficult to deliver a story with such grand ideas, and only center a handful of characters. But The Echo Wife pushes all of the characters to the extreme, as we see the breadth of emotions from them all—some characters who start off rocky methodically transition into steady and vice versa. Whether it’s Martine’s growth of openly expressing a wider array of emotions, even ones that are stigmatized, or Evelyn’s detachment from the parts of her past rotting her insides, every story and character beat is skillfully maneuvered. Only Nathan has a slower character arc, but by the end, there is some development, albeit more miniscule and nuanced.

Nuance is an important word in this book. The Echo Wife posits the flaw of humans to either focus on the macro of people, or just the micros that are pertinent to them. And it pushes its readers to dig deeper for rewards--not only because human connection is most satisfying with genuine bonds and not self-interested ones, but because there are little morsels of information that reveal the novel to be greater than the sum of its part. Missing nuances is unfortunate both in real life and in the reading of this novel.

In some people’s - including Nathan's - head a person as anodyne as possible is ideal. But ideals in the head are often better than reality. Sarah Gailey has highlighted how characters are best when jagged, only willing to smooth over the parts of them that are truly harmful, leaving a lot of roughness behind. For that and many other reasons, The Echo Wife is an excellent novel, and I wouldn’t change much of it even if I could.

4.5 STARS

Evelyn Caldwell is at the peak of her career…and nothing is going right.
Sure, she earned a prestigious award, and basically paved the way for future cloning research, but her lab needs funding, her new townhouse needs unpacking, and her cheating husband is sleeping with her. In a sense.

Because he’s actually sleeping with her clone, the model of who he wanted Evelyn to be, and everything about the situation is sending Evelyn’s life deeper and deeper into a tailspin.

But when Nathan Caldwell ends up dead, it’s up to Evelyn and her clone, Martine, to make sure things get done. There are precautions to take, crimes to cover, and most importantly, decisions to make about their futures, if they can even count on having futures at all.


Long story short, this is all the dangers of having a clone condensed in one place, and I LOVED IT.
There’s something incredible about the way Sarah Gailey makes you root for Evelyn, even though she’s a cold sort of woman who feels more for her work than most kinds of human connection. In part, it’s because you hate her ex-husband more than you could ever possibly hate her, because Nathan is, as the summary puts it, a bastard. Plain and simple, exactly what it says on the tin.

Except it goes deeper. It always, always digs deeper than you’re ready for, making The Echo Wife incredibly sharp and gripping even in a short span of pages. There’s a reason behind everything Evelyn does, everything she thinks, everything she relays onto the page, and it’s about control. It’s about success. It’s about defying her history, her lineage, her ex, and carving out the life she wants for herself, on her terms alone.

And Martine complicates all of that. She is Evelyn, except she isn’t. They share the same face, the same mannerisms, and yet Martine is warm and docile where Evelyn is standoffish and curt. Everything they do from the moment Martine seeks Evelyn’s help forces them to work together and reckon with each other’s existence. Especially important are the ethics of cloning, ethics which could face a total overhaul and cause a loss of funding for Evelyn’s research if word about Martine’s origins got around.

If you think this is a simple, straightforward story about a bad ex with even worse intentions, think again. Because it’s not about Nathan.

It’s about Evelyn, same as it always was.


Some folks may have some trouble with the POV, though I certainly adored it.
Mostly, it’s Evelyn’s precise, detail-heavy narration that I can imagine some readers will dislike. Personally, I loved it. It’s a testament to her need to be in control, proof of her attention to detail. She lets nothing slip through her notice, because she dreads surrendering her power to anyone. Evelyn Caldwell built herself from the ground up, and owes that, she thinks, to no one else.

(And I have no doubt some people will read The Echo Wife and call Evelyn cold, or even a bitch. Which is, in many ways, the point. She’s not nice, but she’s damn fascinating every step of the way!)

Evelyn’s clinical approach to everything from growing bodies in her lab to confronting her clone in the flesh contrasts beautifully with the unsure but determined approach Martine has towards the world. Martine is everything Evelyn is not, particularly when it comes to being quiet and pliant to the whims of those around her. By all rights, the only thing that should connect them is their shared DNA. But all through The Echo Wife, Evelyn is forced to reckon with the things she and Martine share, things that cannot be attributed to their identical genetic makeup, and it’s intensely personal.


In short, there’s very little not to like about The Echo Wife.
Clever and introspective, with a bit of well-deserved justice here and there, it delivers on every count. Just when it seems like the solution could be simple, it twists over on itself and becomes convoluted once more, with characters that bask in a messy complexity fueling every turn along the way.

Thankfully, if it sounds like something you’d like to read, it hits shelves very soon, on February 16th! That’s only a few days away, so if you think you’d want to pre-order it, now’s the time! Or, of course, see if your local library will fill a request to place it on their shelves.

And in the meantime, while you wait, maybe think about the ethics of cloning, the obstacles that might lie in the way. Whatever you come up with is almost sure to await you in The Echo Wife. 💍


CW: abortion, smoking, domestic abuse, gore, violence, nudity, medical scenes, suicide

[This review will go live on Hail & Well Read at 10am EST on 2/12/21.]

Hugo Award winning author Sarah Gailey’s latest novel is a dark sci-fi thriller that is entertaining as it is thought provoking. Evelyn, a brilliant and ambitious scientist is at the top of her game professionally, but her personal life is falling apart. She’s just found out that her husband Nathan has used her own research to create a genetically identical clone of her with the intention to create the pliant, obedient wife he’s always wanted.
Disturbing secrets inevitably come to light with unforeseen consequences that each one of them must grapple with. This clever, chilling novel explores gender roles, trust, human nature, and the ethics of creating and ending a life.

With stark, bold writing, and chock full of twists and turns, readers will be riveted to the book until it's satisfying conclusion.

Recommended for fans of Frankenstein, WestWorld, the Stepford Wives and Blake Crouch’s Sci-fi titles.

Evelyn Caldwell is a well respected,  intelligent scientists but the one thing she can't make herself do is live life & learn that she is a scientists but that's not who she is. It destroys her marriage & her fellow scientists husband makes a clone of her and decides he likes it better & wants a divorce. Evelyn takes it with grace & the next thing she knows the clone calls her. Her husband is dead & the two have to clean up their mess.

This book is perfect for sci fi lovers & is definitely a whirlwind of twists & turns.  I highly recommend this book.

Oh boy this was interesting. What a cool idea! The whole time I wanted to figure out what happened. The ending was an ending. It wasn't crazy good but it brought closure. It wasn't as dramatic as it probably could have been but the characters and storyline were really well developed. It has a futuristic take on science with cloning. I was just waiting for Evelyn and Martine to get caught. It was taken in a really cool direction that you wouldn't think was normally possible.

The Echo Wife
By. Sarah Gailey
P. 347
Format: eArc
Rating: ****
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I received an e-arc from @Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
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The Echo Wife is a psychological thriller sci fi novel. It is dark and it is best prepared that you go into it know that. It is not a book that will leave you terrified, but more expose you to the dark side of humanity.

It was done brilliantly. I couldn’t book the book down even as I kept reading long past my bedtime. I tried to stop reading. I was afraid of nightmares from the grizzly scenes I saw. Yet the book is less about the scenery and more about the people. I couldn’t leave them.

The plot is fairly basic and involves cloning. I had predicted most of the book long before the ending. I didn’t care, I still needed to keep reading. I was trapped in this dark mind and I needed to stay until the end. The ending that was perfect in a completely twisted way.

Gailey’s writing is amazing. The way she creates characters is exceptional. I loved how the plot unfolded even though I knew the twists before they ever came, they still came at exactly the right moment. I do not gravitate towards dark fiction, but this was done excellently.

First of all: Don’t read the blurb for The Echo Wife if you decide to pick this up; it gives away far too much of the initiating premise that author Sarah Gailey spends several chapters building up to slowly. This is not exactly the “non-stop thrill ride” that that blurb promises, but the plot does have a lot of twists that I didn’t see coming and I was often delighted to be surprised. And while it is about a scientist, I really wouldn’t consider this sci-fi (and for the most part, the sciencey bits don’t really hold up and you have to just go with it). Ultimately, The Echo Wife uses a scientific “what if?” to examine questions of agency, identity, gender roles, and what makes us human; what makes us us. This was a quick and interesting read, and while the plot might not bear much scrutiny, I was open to being entertained and this unpredictable, and ultimately thought-provoking, story fit the bill..

Thank you to Tor Books and NetGalley for an early look at this book!

I thought about the Echo Wife for days before writing this review. It was extremely impactful! There was so much going on! From the production of clones being something that was already okay in society and then pushing those ethical norms even further, to the thin line between genius and madness, the questions centering around science for science's sake, even the nature vs. nurture argument for crying out loud! All of it mixed up in parent-child/wife-husband dynamics. I thought about my own parenting of my kids and how my family raised me. I thought about what we owe each other in relationships, narcissism and corruption and what we pass down. Heady stuff! All wrapped up in a compelling narrative and characters I was routing for, even as I grew to despise them.

Amazing writing!

#TheEchoWife #NetGalley

Look, we knew cloning was messed up after Dolly the Sheep, didn’t we? Okay just kidding, humans never learn, and we’re probably going to do some really messed up stuff like this someday. That’s the thing- The Echo Wife is too eerily plausible. Because yes, humanity will be tempted enough to clone people, and yes, eventually it will be used for evil instead of good. I mean, you’ve met us, right?

And here, we see a startling example of how that day may come to be. Evelyn is smart as they come, considering she’s the person who perfected cloning. But her personal life is kind of in shambles. She’s mid-divorce, and her husband left her for her own clone. Talk about a messy situation. She has no friends, no relationship with her family, and I found her life kind of depressing, despite her professional success. She’s quite cold, but it makes sense given the context of her life thus far.

Enter a pregnant (even though whoopsie, clones are not supposed to be able to reproduce) Martine, who has a real problem on her hands, and doesn’t know who to turn to except Evelyn. Evelyn isn’t exactly tickled at the idea of helping her clone/ex-husband’s mistress, but she feels a sense of duty to Martine. And so, the women enter an unlikely partnership, and learn a lot about themselves in the process.

I loved the commentary about how women in general are treated. Clearly, Nathan was The Worst™. If you want out of a marriage, cool. Making a clone from your ex-wife, only more obedient and less independent? Disgusting. And throughout the divorce, Evelyn bore the responsibility of keeping up appearances, of not speaking ill about Nathan, etc. Because she feared the societal and professional repercussions. And you know what? She’s right. Society looks down on divorced women in a way it does not men. Like Nathan leaving Evelyn for her pregnant clone was somehow Evelyn’s failure, something lacking in her. And while I don’t want to give too much away, you’ll see this concept play out throughout the story, quite brilliantly.

Bottom Line: It’s part mystery, part sci-fi, and wholly thought-provoking.

Evelyn is an award winning scientist in the field of cloning. Her ex-husband dabbles in the field as well...enough to clone Evelyn into the submissive wife he wished she had been. When Evelyn meets Martine, her clone, for lunch and realizes she is pregnant, things get tricky. But when Martine calls Evelyn frantic and Evelyn rushes to her aid only to fine her ex dead, what's a woman to do? Clone another one of course...what could possibly go wrong?

I'm going to preface my review by saying that I have no experience with PhD level scientific research - and after several lengthy discussions with someone who does about the fine line between making something realistic and telling an effective story, I can acknowledge several moments where the narrative decisions Gailey makes are not feasible and don't make any sense. The level of oversight needed to run a research lab, the amount of collaboration and networking and keeping up-to-date with your contemporaries: all of that was brushed over for the sake of making Evelyn an island. And it doesn't make sense and would never happen in reality.

That being said, in order to tell the story effectively, Evelyn had to be an island. So if, like me, you have absolutely no concept of what higher level academic research entails, you will be way more likely to enjoy this book. (Unfortunately for me, I had these discussions while I was reading and so when a certain decision is made near the end I wanted to throw the book at the wall because it made NO SENSE; I'm still actively having discussions about it)

But! It's also important to note that this book brings up some of my favorite sci-fi topics: what makes a person; how does "fringe science" interface with ethics, morality, and the law; emotional distance in science; and the impacts of a person's upbringing on their decisions. The Orphan Black fan in me was so excited to see the clones being compared with the originals - especially when you bring into it the fact that clones, according to science, are subjects and NOT people. To see Evelyn struggle with the scientist that says "this human who looks like me is not a person but a clone" even as she begins to understand and respect Martine and Martine's differences from Evelyn herself. Having that come up again and again was just fascinating.

The story was well-paced, always giving us a sense of forward momentum, giving enough of an overview of the passage of time that it never felt like too much was happening too quickly. Again, I was concerned about how much Evelyn was able to get away with without oversight or being questioned by the people signing her grant checks, but that's already been mentioned. I also really liked how Martine grew throughout the story, and how Evelyn's reactions to her change and adapt as we fill in more of Evelyn's own past experiences.

Evelyn Caldwell is an award winning scientist who's devoted decades to the research and development of cloning technology. But her obsessive devotion to her work and her sharp attitude are only partially to blame for her divorce. After all, Nathan's solution to their failing relationship was to steal Evelyn's research and create his dream woman. Martine is a perfect clone of Evelyn, minus the attitude. And the free will. She's been modified to cater to Nathan's every whim.

But when Nathan ends up dead, Martine and Evelyn must work together to cover up the murder.

The first thing I noticed is that neither of the main characters are exactly good people.
-Nathan was so dysfunctional that he thought making a clone of his wife was a reasonable solution to his failing marriage with Evelyn.
-Evelyn herself is not a nice person. She closes herself off and picks needless fights. She grew up in an abusive household and never really escaped the trauma of it. Combined with her devotion to work, it seems likes she just shouldn't be in a relationship right now.
Her clone, Martine is nice. By design, she's selfless to a damaging degree. But since we're reading from Evelyn's perspective, every action Martine makes is met with suspicion and resentment.

This book turned out to be a gripping read. If you're looking for an exciting adventure, this is not it. This is an intense and slow paced sci fi thriller, that touches on abuse, the ethics of cloning, and ideas of personhood. The majority of this work takes place in Evelyn's head as she broods over her husband's betrayal, her parents, and her tense new relationship with Martine. Despite initial difficulties, it's a relief see Evelyn and Martine grow closer and reach an understanding. To see Evelyn consider Martine a whole person.
It's also weirdly a relief to discover some of Nathan's more deeply buried secrets.

When I first read the synopsis I had no idea what to expect from The Echo Wife. Halfway through the book I even paused to write down four or five of my best guesses as to how it would all end. Every one of my guesses was wrong.

~I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review~

Many thanks to NetGalley and MacMillan/Tor Books for gifting me a digital ARC of the new novel by Sarah Gailey - 4.5 stars for a genre-crossing great read!

Evelyn is a scientist at the top of her field, specializing in cloning. Her husband Nathan wishes Evelyn was less work-focused, more focused on him, and willing to start a family. Enter Martine, her clone, created by Nathan with Evelyn's research. Nathan divorces Evelyn and plans on marrying Martine. And let the games begin!

I'm keeping my synopsis very short - this is a great, fun read that takes future science possibilities and really twists them into a domestic drama. You'll enjoy the book more knowing as little as possible. Don't let the sci-fi aspect stop you from reading it - it's more sci-fi light, with enough science to feel real without making your head spin. The fun part is all of the moral dilemmas created with having clones and the relationships between Evelyn, Nathan and Martine. Full of surprising twists, you need to put this on your to be read list right now!

Evelyn Caldwell is at the top of her profession. She is an award-winning scientist/researcher who is at the top of her game. Unfortunately, her husband has left her --- for her. WHAT!?! Yes, he has used her award-winning research and created the perfect woman in Evelyn's image. A new and improved version of Evelyn if you will.... or at least a better version for him. He wants a Stepford wife whose sole purpose is to please him, to give him what he wants, one who will not burn the eggs, be smarter than him, or have her own opinions....and yet....

Martine is Evelyn's clone. Made without Evelyn's knowledge or consent. Imagine your find out that your spouse is having an affair with...You....well not you...but a cloned version of you. Talk about a slap in the face! Plus, he wants a woman who looks exactly like you, has your mannerisms, etc. CREEPY. Imagine that the clone, Maritime, wants to meet you, have a little chat... How would you feel about that???

Now, Nathan, the cheating husband is dead.... what are the two Mrs. Caldwell's going to do?

Oh, how deliciously fun! This book is set in the near future where clones are being produced in labs. What is ethical and what is not? How far will science go? Dolly the sheep, Martine is not. I loved that this book touches lightly on Science and did not leave me feeling left in the dark with too much science jargon.

I had my ideas about how I thought this would go, I was off base, but nevertheless, this was a hoot and proved to be an extremely fast read. This is a nice blend of science fiction and domestic drama. The Echo Wife is original and intelligent. It became a page tuner that I did not want to put down.

Well written, thought provoking and entertaining.

Thank you to Macmillan-Tor/Forge and NetGalley who provided me with a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All the thoughts and opinions are my own.