Echo After Echo

Echo After Echo

A. R. Capetta2021
Debuting on the New York stage, Zara is unprepared -- for Eli, the girl who makes the world glow; for Leopold, the director who wants perfection; or for death in the theater. Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to the visionary director Leopold Henneman, to play her dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. When the director asks Zara to promise that she will have no outside commitments, no distractions, it's easy to say yes. But it's hard not to be distracted when there's a death at the theater -- and then another -- especially when Zara doesn't know if they're accidents, or murder, or a curse that always comes in threes. It's hard not to be distracted when assistant lighting director Eli Vasquez, a girl made of tattoos and abrupt laughs and every form of light, looks at Zara. It's hard not to fall in love. In heart-achingly beautiful prose, Amy Rose Capetta has spun a mystery and a love story into an impossible, inevitable whole -- and cast lantern light on two young women, finding each other on a stage set for tragedy.
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kate humphreys @ktaird
3 stars
Aug 30, 2022

(3.5) i actually really enjoyed this blend of thriller and romance and i wish it was adult with more profound language and concepts - but overall it was quite precious and aside from a bit of an abrupt ending (i felt like another chapter would’ve been nice) this is def something i’ll be recommending to people :)

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Nicole Dykeman@holobookthief
3 stars
Aug 25, 2022

I'm not really sure how to rate this. It was an incredibly easy read. If I wasn't at school full time right now, I probably would have finished the whole thing in a day. It was fast-paced and kept my attention easily. The romance between Zara and Eli was lovely. It felt easy and natural and I was definitely rooting for them. Zara was a great character and I'm positive she will be incredibly relatable to any theater geek that picks this up. Eli was my favorite, though I can't pinpoint why I like her so much. She just has a kind heart, and her character was very appealing to me. I wish there had been more chapters from her point of view. Leopold was just...AWFUL. Like, oh my god, what a terrible person. He was the worst and every moment he and Zara interacted made me feel icky and uncomfortable. Adrian wasn't a very memorable character. His character kinda seemed irrelevant and I don't see why he was included in the story so much? He just didn't really fit in with the rest of the story and it felt like his inclusion was forced. In terms of the "big reveal" about the deaths, I wasn't all that surprised about it. There was never a moment when my jaw dropped at a plot twist or anything. Overall, I'm very on the fence about this for some reason. Like, I obviously enjoyed it if I read it so quickly, but I can't exactly tell you why. I'm gonna muse about it for a few days before I rate it.

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CJ Osborn-Clark@cobes_reading_queue
4 stars
May 28, 2023
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amelia@amy_f
4 stars
Aug 11, 2022
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Melissa Schneider@melblackbird
3 stars
Apr 3, 2022
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Claire Klein@claire
3 stars
Oct 20, 2021
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Abi Baker@wicdiv
3 stars
Sep 30, 2021
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zilver @howl
3 stars
Sep 19, 2021