Echoes Between Us is bestselling author Katie McGarry’s breakout teen contemporary novel about a girl with everything to lose and the boy who will do anything to save her. Veronica sees ghosts–more specifically, her mother’s ghost, thanks to the blinding migraines that consume her whole life and keep Veronica on the fringes. But the haunting afterimages make her wonder if there is something … if there is something more going on….
Golden boy Sawyer is handsome and popular, a state champion swimmer, but this All-American is hiding an adrenaline addiction that could kill him. Drawn to each other after a chance meeting, can they help each other battle the demons that haunt their every step or will they push their luck too far and risk losing it all…including their lives?
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When I first read the synopsis on Bookish First I knew I’d be using my points to get this. One of the main characters, Veronica, suffers from blinding migraines as a result of a brain tumor and as someone who suffers from chronic daily headaches and chronic migraines I had already formed a small kinship.
Veronica and Sawyer are two teenagers who should be on the verge of starting their next stage of life…instead Veronica has a brain tumor that seems to be growing and Sawyer is supposed to be the golden boy with the golden future but his life is anything but golden.
A school project brought them together and set them on a course neither one saw coming at all. This YA contemporary romance was as beautiful as it was sad and haunting ( and not just because Veronica can see ghosts).
I found Veronica to be an incredibly brave and beautiful young woman and while her story was sad, Sawyer’s broke my whole heart. These two should have been 17 going on 18 not 40. Making decisions that are hard to make as an adult, but it was that maturity that came into play when they both had to make those hard decisions.
This book will stick with me for a while and will be one that I recommend fully.
And I’ll be there or you as the world falls down. Review of echoes between us.
Sawyer moves into the first floor of Veronica’s dad’s house with his mother and sister. Sawyer’s father has left his mother and gives her a divorce. Sawyer and Veronica go to the same High school however, they run in different social circles. Sawyer is the popular, great-looking jock and Veronica is the “freak” weirdo With own clique of friends. Sawyer and Veronica only speak to each other when Sawyer breaks social circle norms and decides to partner with Veronica on an AP writing project to prove ghosts exist. This upsets Sawyers’s best friend Scarlett and his mother. Who threatens to demand the school make him work with his friends. Sawyer defies his mother and friends and continues to work with Veronica. Sawyer and Veronica get to know each other as well as their secrets. Veronica suffers from blinding migraines and sees the ghost of her mother and Sawyer is an adrenaline junkie who dives down extremely high mountain cliffs for a thrill. I absolutely love this book. It was so touching, heartfelt and funny. It tugs on the heart strings and makes you cry. (in a good way) Lol. I loved the characters of Sawyer and Veronica as they showed more strength and maturity when they stood up to their friends and their mother. I felt they were the adults and the adults were the children. Lol. Also, you get to know who the “Intolerant Monsters” really are. This is the first book I’ve read by this author and will not be last. I am so excited to have discovered her through BOOKISHFIRST.COM. I look forward to reading g the beginning of this series. I’d like to thank BOOKISHFIRST.COM and the author for providing me with a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
Echoes between us Review
I was super excited for this book, and I wasn’t let down! The overall premise of this book isn’t unique, weird girl and hot popular guy somehow get connected and fall in love. This one had a very unusual twist that pulled me in: ghosts, and not either of the main characters being a ghost (thank god!). It was sold as a paranormal romance, and the paranormal was around the romance instead instead of apart of it, if that makes sense.
Win:
-sawyer and Veronica. I loved our 2 main characters. It centered around the secrets both of them were keeping
-hunting ghosts. YES! I love Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and anything to do with ghosts/ hauntings and proving their validity, so when that happened, I was super elated!
-super cute story with a cute ending. I dont do contemporary, or ya romance all that often, because I prefer fantasy, but I needed this right now, and I loved it.
-evelyns diary entries. They were interesting, and I genuinely do love the outlook she had on life. I’m definitely interested in reading her full diary without Sawyers point of view popping in to tie it in.
Opportunities
-why did Veronica want sawyer for her project so bad? Because he was close and had a car (not buying it)
-Leo. What an awful “love triangle” attempt. Leo was a self-centered jerk, and suddenly at the end all is forgiving. Mmk.
My big warning on this, there may be some triggering things throughout the novel, and none of the were mentioned before hand. Predatory behavior (mentioned a possibility of it happening), adrenaline junkies, as well as alcoholism. I wish there was some kind of warning beforehand, instead of just in the authors note at the very end. Other than that, this was a super cute novel, and I’m not mad at it. The paranormal was interesting, the TB hospital, the diary entries, and the brain tumor were interesting additions to a very cliche book.