Our Last Echoes, Kate Alice Marshall
Our Last Echoes, Kate Alice Marshall
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Our Last Echoes

Author: Kate Alice Marshall

Narrator: Kathleen McInerney, Robbie Daymond, Rob Shapiro

Unabridged: 10 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/16/2021


Synopsis

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

In 1973, the thirty-one residents of Bitter Rock disappeared. In 2003, so did my mother. Now, I've come to Bitter Rock to find out what happened to her—and to me. Because Bitter Rock has many ghosts. And I might be one of them.

Sophia's earliest memory is of drowning. She remembers the darkness of the water and the briny taste as it filled her throat, the sensation of going under. She remembers hands pulling her back to safety, but that memory is impossible—she's never been to the ocean.

But then Sophia gets a mysterious call about an island named Bitter Rock, and learns that she and her mother were there fifteen years ago--and her mother never returned. The hunt for answers lures her to Bitter Rock, but the more she uncovers, the clearer it is that her mother is just one in a chain of disappearances.

People have been vanishing from Bitter Rock for decades, leaving only their ghostly echoes behind. Sophia is the only one who can break the cycle—or risk becoming nothing more than another echo haunting the island.

About The Author

Kate Alice Marshall started writing before she could hold a pen properly, and never stopped. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with a chaotic menagerie of pets and family members, and ventures out in the summer to kayak and camp along Puget Sound. She is the author of the young adult novels I Am Still Alive and Rules for Vanishing, as well as the middle grade novel Thirteens. Visit her online at katemarshallbooks.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Deb on November 18, 2021

Absolutely loved this book. Scary and mysterious. It does have a correlation with Invasion of The Body Snatchers in the beginning , thus a 4 rather than a 5. I highly recommended for scary and thriller readers.......more

Goodreads review by Sheena on April 12, 2021

Sophia’s earliest memory is of drowning and losing her mother, and so becoming an orphan at a young age. All her life she has been told her mom died in Montana, leaving Sophia to bounce around within the foster care system until she turns eighteen. Sophia believes there is more to her mother’s disapp......more

Goodreads review by Melanie (mells_view) on March 16, 2021

If you love ghost stories or spooky local legend type tales, then you need to pick this book up. Our Last Echoes is the story of Sophia Novak. She’s a girl who has been told that her past happened one way, and has recently been informed that was all a lie. So in order to understand her past and her......more

Goodreads review by Provin on April 15, 2022

Sophia is an orphan. She never knew her father and her mother disappeared in 2003. That’s the same year Sophia was found, a small child, floating alone in a boat. She grew up in and out of foster homes, never really finding a family, and she had a lot of trouble making friends. Soon she’s given the o......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on February 10, 2021

Actual Rating: 4.5 stars Our Last Echoes is pitched as Kara Thomas meets Twin Peaks, and I think that's pretty apt. It also had some X-Files vibes in my opinion. It's a "supernatural thriller" that I would say verges more into horror territory, but with lots of weirdness and alternate dimensions a la......more


Quotes

Raves for Our Last Echoes:

"Fantastically immersive... Beautifully haunting and sure to keep readers up all night."—Kirkus
 
 "A disturbingly imaginative tale that is both deeply human and truly terrifying."—Publishers Weekly
 
“Told in a series of prose chapters mixed with found documents and written confessions, this offers teen readers an engrossing journey that will appeal to fans of body horror and supernatural thrillers.”—Booklist
 
 "Marshall masterfully balances a building thrum of tension with perfectly timed jump scares."—BCCB

Praise for Rules for Vanishing:

* "[A] chilling tale [that] ties together regional folklore, urban legends, and ghost stories to craft an exquisitely unsettling dark fantasy."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Engrossing."-Kirkus

"A haunting tale."-SLJ

Raves for I Am Still Alive:

"This tense wire of a novel thrums with suspense.... [This book] just might be the highlight of your summer."-The New York Times

* "A taut, gripping page-turner with a strong female hero to root for."-Kirkus, starred review

* "With masterful pacing, rich characterization, a dynamic voice, and a thrilling blend of wilderness survival and revenge, this is an engrossing read from a writer to watch."-Booklist, starred review