Book Review: Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall

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_{This was my book rec for Geminis for the month of August . To view the rest of my New Release Book Recs for August (based on your sun sign) scroll to the bottom!}

It’s been years since Sophia’s mother vanished into the Alaskan mist and no one seems to know exactly what happened. All Sophia has are fragmented memories and a story that doesn’t make sense. Posing as an eager, bird-loving intern, Sophia makes her way back to the remote refuge of Bitter Rock – a bird preserve shrouded in constant cover of a nearly anthropomorphic mist. But with the answers she’s sought for decades almost in reach, Sophia realizes that this truth comes at a price that isn’t hers to pay.

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“What’s down there?” she asked. “A crack in the world,” I answered automatically.”

– Sophia Novak , Our Last Echoes

📹📹📹 (Three stars as rated in all the clues on Abby’s camera)

I was excited to finally be getting to this one as it was the Cancer pick on my new release book rec list for the month March. Not that it matters that much, but I stand by my designation that this is a total book for Cancers. It’s actually a bit ridiculous how much of a water sign book this is. 🌊🐟

What I enjoyed most about this book is that I went into it with a certain idea of what was happening, and while that misconception crumbled beneath me the plotline that took it’s place ended up being 5x better. Kate Alice Marshall brings a nice dose of originality to the “something lurking in the mist” trope and I rather enjoyed that.

“This place gets inside of you… It gets inside of you and you’ll never scrape it all out.”

– Our Last Echoes

“All thirty-one residents vanished without a trace. No further communication was received. No bodies were ever recovered.

They were not the first.

They would not be the last.“

– Our Last Echoes

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Kate Alice Marshall

(The following was copied from the author’s personal website) Kate Marshall is the author of the Young Adult novels I Am Still Alive and Rules For Vanishing, along with the upcoming Eden Eld middle grade series. Her science fiction and fantasy fiction has appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Crossed Genres, and elsewhere. 

She lives outside of Seattle with her husband, a dog named Vonnegut, and her two kids. They all conspire to keep her on her toes.

Robbie Daymond

Robbie Daymond is a Native-American Voice Artist, Actor, and Performer based in Los Angeles. He works in Anime, western animation, commercials, film, television, audiobooks and videogames for companies such as: Nickelodeon, Disney, Warner Brothers, Cartoon Network, Discovery Kids, NBC, 20^th Century Fox, Marvel, Bang Zoom!, Lucas Films, Activision, Square Enix, Volition Games, Studiopolis, VIZ, Aniplex, SyFy, Random House and many more. (copied from the narrator’s personal website)

Other books narrated by Robbie Daymond: One of Us Is Lying, They Both Die at the End, Holding Up The Universe, The Lucky Ones, The Book of Essie

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A happy Thursday to the lot of you,

Sarah