Echo Wife

Plot twist after plot twist!

"Stress stimulates growth. Sometimes, in order to make something develop in the right direction, you have to hurt it." Evelyn's work in the field of cloning is very important to her. So is her husband, Nathan. One day he leaves her for the perfect woman. A woman built to his exact specifications using Evelyn's research. Martine is everything Evelyn is not; demure, obedieint, the perfect wife. Evelyn struggles to move on from his betrayal. When she receives a distressed phone call from the replacement wife, Evelyn reluctantly finds herself turning to her aware-winning research as a solution to the problem of Nathan's untimely death. As they work together, Evelyn and Martine begin to see each other as more than the stiff scientist workaholic and the dutiful submissive trophy wife. Other reviewers have pointed out the unbelievable (in a bad way) science featured as a flaw, but I had no issue with it. I was distracted (in a good way) by the complex relationship that developed between the two women. Told via Evelyn's quiet and controlled inner monolog, there is a bit of a delicious creep factor as she glosses over the morality of what they are doing and ponders how she can use it to further fund her life's work. Evelyn reveals painful memories of both her childhood and various stages of her marriage, giving insight into who she became and what may have led to her current circumstances. She offers observations of Martine as she stretches beyond blind obedience and begins to emerge as a person, capable of independent thought. Evelyn is forced to stop looking at Martine as not human; a tool built by Nathan solely for his personal pleasure and control.