Review of Blood Echo by Melissa Simonson
4 stars
Iris and Estella are hard-charging, party-animal, trust-fund
babies, good-looking, well-dressed and styling. That’s the façade, but
underneath are two souls marching through a wasteland, a void, empty shells
encasing empty hearts—until—Estella’s self-mutilation reaches the extreme, and
she dies at her own hand. Now it’s just one empty shell, Iris, surrounded by
people who almost without exception don’t understand her, or Estella. When a
close family member of Estella’s is brutally slain, with cocaine dumped on the
corpse in some sort of message—to the police? To the remaining family? To Iris?—focus
turns to Iris, whose addiction, just as Estella’s, often ran rampant and
obsessive.
The characters and settings of this novel put me in mind of
those of Noel Coward and Edward Albee: upscale, society scions, disenchanted,
and eternally bored and jaded. Their disenchantment is well illustrated, and
their backgrounds well-delineated and easy to visualize in the reader’s
imagination.
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BLOOD ECHO sounds like a good story. Thanks so much for the reveiw :)
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