Week 26 Review: Our Last Echoes

From Goodreads:

Kara Thomas meets Twin Peaks in this supernatural thriller about one girl's hunt for the truth about her mother's disappearance.

Sophia's first memory is of drowning. She remembers the darkness of the water and the briny taste as it fills her throat. She remembers the cold shock of going under. She remembers her mother pulling her to safety before disappearing forever. But Sophia has never been in the ocean. And her mother died years ago in a hospital. Or so she has been told her whole life.

A series of clues have led Sophia to the island of Bitter Rock, Alaska, where she talked her way into a summer internship at the Landon Avian Research Center, the same center her mother worked at right before she died. There, she meets the disarmingly clever Liam, whose own mother runs the LARC, as well as Abby, who's following a mystery of her own: a series of unexplained disappearances. People have been vanishing from Bitter Rock for decades, leaving only their ghostly echoes behind. When it looks like their two mysteries might be one and the same, Sophia vows to dig up the truth, no matter how many lies she has to tell along the way. Even if it leads her to a truth she may not want to face.

Our Last Echoes is an eerie collection of found documents and written confessionals, in the style of Rules for Vanishing, with supernatural twists that keep you questioning what is true and what is an illusion.

My Review:
This was such a fantastic read! It was dark and creep, and I wanted to know what the heck was going on! It does have a connection to Rules for Vanishing, and it's told in a similar style, with mixed media, which I really enjoyed! 

Sophia's past-and her mother's disappearance, is a mystery. So when it's revealed that her mom was at Bitter Rock, well, Sophia has to go there and see if she can find out what happened. And it quickly becomes apparent that Bitter Rock is not normal, that something is going on.

This mystery of what the heck is going on-and what happened in the past-was so fascinating! And that it connected to Abby, who we did meet in Rules for Vanishing, and she was a part of what was going on now, not the inquiry afterwards, so that was great! 

When we found out what happened, wow, that was pretty awful, and just kept coming! And then there was that ending! That was a pretty spectacular ending, though it did have its cost. But it fit withw hat had happened previously in the book.

One thing that I loved about this book, is that it's same in the world as Rules for Vanishing, so I'm almost hoping that this'll become a series, because that would be really fantastic! At the time of writing this review, we do have the next YA book from Kate Alice Marshall, These Fleeting Shadows, and it sounds like it could be connected, as well! 

Author: Kate Alice Marshall
Read: June 28th, 2021
Source: Ebook.bike 
Reason Why: I love her writing and it sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2021 Book and a WoW Book!
Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
Published: March 31st 2021

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars