Book Review: Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey
Just Like Home
Author: Sarah Gailey
Published: July 19, 2022
Audiobook: 10 hours
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Listened To: October 25-31, 2022
Jessica’s Rating: 2 stars
Book Description:
“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories — she’s come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there.
Coming home is hard enough for Vera, and to make things worse, she and her mother aren’t alone. A parasitic artist has moved into the guest house out back, and is slowly stripping Vera’s childhood for spare parts. He insists that he isn’t the one leaving notes around the house in her father’s handwriting… but who else could it possibly be?
There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House. Vera must face them, and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes.
Jessica’s Review:
Warning: This one goes in a supernatural direction! And I was not looking for that, there was no sign at all about this. I wanted a good old horror novel!
I was excited to finally get this one the week of Halloween: I was ready for a good, scary story dealing with the past of a serial killer father, but heed my warning above, this novel ended up being not for me! If I had known it was going to go in a supernatural direction, I would have skipped it.
This one is a slow burner that got going closer to the end when the supernatural elements came into play. It just didn’t work for me. This one was a big disappointment after I really enjoyed The Echo Wife last year.
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Release Day Review: The Echo Wife by Sarah Gailey
The Echo Wife
Author: Sarah Gailey
Published: TODAY, February 16, 2021
256 Pages
Reviewed By: Jessica
Dates Read: January 27-February 8, 2021
Jessica’s Rating: 4 stars
Book Description:
Basically what you need to know is this: A Science Fiction novel that deals with clones and murder.
**Read the below book description and face spoilers**:
Martine is a genetically cloned replica made from Evelyn Caldwell’s award-winning research. 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 the Caldwell wives have a mess to clean up. Good thing Evelyn Caldwell is used to getting her hands dirty.
Jessica’s Review:
I must say that after I had read about 80 pages I decided that the book description gives away too much and I really can’t stand that! All you really need to know is that The Echo Wife deals with clones and murder.
I am selective with what I read that is of the sci fi genre, but this one was right up my alley! The Echo Wife is total Science Fiction, and the science is not too much for the typical non sci fi reader. Some describe this one as a thriller as well, but for me it was not: It is character driven and is slower moving. All science fiction is fiction until it becomes fact!
Evelyn is our narrator to the novel and she starts her story with receiving an award for her research. It goes in a direction I figured out (most likely due to the many thrillers I read), but I enjoyed going for the ride. Evelyn is not very likeable and yet Martine is and they are total opposites, yet also not.
There are a few OMG moments that add to the story. The novel does have a conclusion, yet I wanted more story to see what will be coming next. This novel does leave you thinking about how far we humans will push science and to quote Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park: “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
This is my first novel by Gailey and I really enjoyed it. If you are a sci fi reader then this one you should read!
Many thanks to the publisher Tor Books for granting me a copy to read and review via Bookish First.
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