Our Last Echoes

Today’s post is on Our Last Echoes by Kate Alice Marshall. It is 394 pages long and published by Viking Books. The cover is a picture of a rowboat in fog. The intended reader is someone who likes horror in the found footage style. It is a follow up to her previous novel Rules for Vanishing in that it takes place in the same world and has some returning characters. There is some mild foul language, no sex, and mild violence in this novel. The story is told in different ways from first person narration to transcript of footage. There Be Spoilers Ahead.

From the dust jacket- 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.

Review- Another great horror story from Marshall. Sophia is searching for herself and her past, she thought she knew what happened to her and her mother but one phone call from a stranger changes everything. She lies her way into an internship on Bitter Rock, an island with a mysterious past. This is a continuation from Rules for Vanishing exploring more in this world that has so many supernatural issues. Marshall is settling into her world and creating bigger scope for her characters to work in. I liked Rules for Vanishing more but this novel has some great moments with the Six Wing and it’s world and getting to see that there is so much more than what we see in Rules for Vanishing. I am looking forward to the next novel in this world. 

I give this novel a Four out of Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I borrowed this novel from my local library.