The Echo by James Smythe #review

The stunning sequel to James Smythe’s critically acclaimed literary sci-fi novel The Explorer.

TWENTY YEARS following the disappearance of the infamous Ishiguro – the first manned spacecraft to travel deeper into space than ever before – humanity are setting their sights on the heavens once more.

Under the direction of two of the most brilliant minds science has ever seen – that of identical twin brothers Tomas and Mirakel Hyvönen – this space craft has a bold mission: to study what is being called ‘the anomaly’ – a vast blackness of space into which the Ishiguro disappeared. Between them Tomas (on the ground, guiding the mission from the command centre) and Mira (on the ship, with the rest of the hand-picked crew) are leaving nothing to chance.

But soon these two scientists are to learn that there are some things in space beyond our understanding. As the anomaly begins to test the limits of Mira’s comprehension – and his sanity – will Tomas be able to save his brother from being lost in space too?

The second book in the Anomaly Quartet has me dying for the next one in the series even more than book one did. I don’t know how I could review this book without giving a lot away but then the blurb gives a lot of book one away as is. Suffice it to say this series is amazing. The writing is incredible. The story just blows your mind. The characters well any more fleshed out and they’d be standing there beside you. The constant feelings the story creates within the reader are so extreme and dramatic you will not know what to believe. What is real and what is in the characters head. Our protagonist with book two is unlike book one a person we never really care much for least I didn’t but his story, his journey had me demanding to know what happens. The writing is wonderful and the author is clearly a talented individual. I would rate this book slightly below the first in the series because I believe that book had a better ending. The mystery continues however and I wonder if we’ll ever be in the know. Terrifying as each journey is however, I want to more!

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