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256 pages, Hardcover
First published February 16, 2021
The floor was well polished.
Dragging him across it wasn't hard at all.
✔️ EXPECTATION: Action-packed plot that is as gripping as the storylines of Westworld, with protagonists as entertaining as those in Killing Eve.
❌ REALITY: None of the above.
✔️ EXPECTATION: Lush, vivid, expansive world building (à la Westworld!!!!!!).
❌ REALITY: Worldbuilding is practically nonexistent.
✔️ EXPECTATION: Husband would be tangential to the story.
❌ REALITY: Husband cropped up on just about every page.
There was a piece of me now that no one would ever be able to reach.
The way I see it, you mostly stop loving a person the same way you stop respecting them. It can happen all at once if something enormous and terrible falls over the two of you. But for the most part, it happens in inches. In a thousand tiny moments of contempt that unravel the image you had of the person you thought you knew.The Echo Wife wears the guise of a science fiction thriller. In some version of our world (the future, maybe? It’s unclear) human cloning is both possible and legal. Dr. Evelyn Caldwell is a pioneer in the process of grafting the original subject’s personality—modified as you desire!—onto an adult clone, which can be grown in 100 days. As the book opens, she’s going through a divorce because her ex-husband Nathan used her technique to make Martine, a clone of Evelyn that he deemed to be a more desirable version her—more malleable and subservient and, most of all, interested in starting a family.