The Echo Wife - Sarah Gailey (Replay)

Sci-Fi/Thriller

Rating: 9/10

As I prepare to drop my review of My Murder by Katie Williams on Thursday, I thought a reminder of another stellar sci-fi novel was in order. My advice, don’t miss either!

What if you discovered your husband was having an affair with his wife? Yes, you read that properly. 

The main character knocks on the door of what she believes to be the home of the women her husband is cheating with.  Things get a lot more perplexing than expected when the door opens, and she sees…herself.

Evelyn is a brilliant scientist who has made unprecedented strides in the area of human cloning. Never in her wildest imaginings did she expect that her husband would steal the technology to make a version of her that was more palatable to him.  Someone he could dominate and be superior to.  As the saying goes, the best laid plans…

The author spins the extramarital and domestic strife tropes in some intriguingly unique directions. This book has a lot to love; weird science, murder, bad romance and the unspooling of enough twists to leave the reader with a serious case of whiplash.

My thanks to Net Galley, MacMillan-Tor/Forge publishers and the author for my advance readers copy.

Footnote: A superb mash-up of Recursion by Blake Crouch and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, not easy to pull off so kudos to the author. Whose backlist I will be seeking out immediately!