The Echo Wife

I strongly enjoyed this book, but at the same time, I feel vaguely unsatisfied by it.

The story itself, the plot and concept, is great. I like the cloning aspect and the bit of me that reads true crime is fascinated by ‘conditioning', because of course you'd need to do that but also, oh my god. This is a book that pitches itself, you just read the description and grab it up in a second because how can you not?!

However, the execution, the specifics of the characters and their interactions, I wish I knew more about them. I wish Evelyn were able to sit down with her mother at some point and just like, gently doubletalk around their similar experiences with regards to the men they married. I had honestly expected Martine and Evelyn to use the killswitch almost immediately-I fully thought that they were making 2.0 just so he can die ‘naturally', sobbing wife at the funeral, etc. I wanted Evelyn to examine her own issues more strongly, she's sitting on the fence as it relates to the humanity of Martine and their sisters and it feels like she never really came to terms on either side of that fence.