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The Echo Wife by Xe Sands

The Echo Wife

Xe Sands, Sarah Gailey, Macmillan Audio

Tor/Forge · Print & ebook · May 24, 2022

A Science Fiction pick for readers exploring The Echo Wife.

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Genres
Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi, Domestic Thrillers, Sci-Fi Crime
Published
Tor/Forge, May 24, 2022

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About this book

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 a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell’s award-winning research.

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She’s patient and gentle and obedient. She’s everything Evelyn swore she’d never be. And she’s having an affair with Evelyn’s husband. Now, the cheating bastard is dead, and both Caldwell wives have a mess to clean up. Good thing Evelyn Caldwell is used to getting her hands dirty.

Echo Adjacent

Come here for

  • The Echo Wife connection
  • Domestic-psychological tension with sibling friction

Expect

  • Thriller pacing
  • A science-fiction edge

Where it sits

Domestic Thrillers58%
Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi44%
Sci-Fi Crime35%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi
  • Crime Fiction
  • Domestic Thrillers
Authors
Xe Sands, Sarah Gailey, Macmillan Audio
Publisher
Tor/Forge
Published
May 24, 2022
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Genetic Engineering Sci-Fi