AUDIOBOOK REVIEW⤏ THE ECHO ROOM

BY PARKER PEEVYHOUSE

NARRATED BY MATT GODFREY

SYNOPSIS FROM AUTHORS WEBSITE⇣
The only thing worse than being locked in is facing what you locked out...
Rett Ward knows how to hide. He's had six years of practice at Walling Home, the state-run boarding school where he learned how to keep his head down to survive.
But when Rett wakes up locked in a small depot with no memory of how he got there, he can't hide. Not from the stranger in the next room. Or from the fact that there's someone else’s blood on his jumpsuit.
Worse, every time he tries to escape, he wakes up right back where he started. Same day, same stranger, same bloodstained jumpsuit.
As memories start to surface, Rett realizes that the logo on the walls is familiar, the stranger isn't a stranger, and the blood on his jumpsuit belongs to someone—or something—banging on the door to get in.

THE DETAILS⇣

⤏ MYSTERIOUS YA SCY-FY 
⤏ FUTURISTIC DYSTOPIAN WORLD WITH TIME-TRAVELING

⤏ MY REVIEW IN ONE WORD:  REPETITIVE

⤏ LIKE GROUNDHOGS DAY...BUT NOT FUNNY

⤏ WITH STARSHIP TROOPER-ESQUE BUGS AND SECRET BUNKERS

⤏ LENGTH OF AUDIO - 9 HOURS, 6 MINUTES
⤏ I LISTENED ON LIBBY THROUGH MY LIBRARY

MY THOUGHTS⇣

In the beginning, I thought that I had mistakenly touched my phone and made the audiobook rewind because it seemed to be repeating what I already listened too...but I didn't do that...the story actually just keeps repeating, at least for a little while...but it was subtlety different each time it repeated.  Once I figured that out I was really into this mysterious, time-jumping, mild altering, sci-fi-ish adventure.

Eventually, though, it kind of lost me. The story is intriguing, the characters were likable...but I'm not sure that the plotline is something that could be pulled off in as many pages (only 306) that this was.  Overall, I was not completely enamored with the writing, it left me feeling like I was missing something important.  

Narration by Matt Godfrey was good...It didn't wow me but I also didn't have any issues with it.  I would gladly listen to him again.

BREAKDOWN⇣

Narration Rating⇢ 4¼ STARS
Plot⇢ 3.8/5

Characters⇢ 4/5

The Feels⇢ 3.5/5

Pacing⇢ 3.8/5

Addictiveness⇢ 3.8/5

Theme, Tone or Intensity⇢ 4/5
Originality/Believability⇢ 4/5

Flow (Writing Style/Ease of Listening)⇢ 3/5

Twisty-ness/Mystery⇢ 3.2/5

Ending⇢ 3.5/5