Echoes of Grace

Echoes of Grace
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Age Range
13+
Release Date
August 16, 2022
ISBN
978-1643794259
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In Eagle Pass, Texas, Grace struggles to understand the echoes she inherited from her mother--visions which often distort her reality. One morning, as her sister, Mercy, rushes off to work, a disturbing echo takes hold of Grace, and within moments, tragedy strikes.

Attending community college for the first time, talking to the boy next door, and working toward her goals all help Grace recover, but her estrangement from Mercy takes a deep toll. And as Grace's echoes bring ghosts and premonitions, they also bring memories of when Grace fled to Mexico to the house of her maternal grandmother--a woman who Grace had been told died long ago. Will piecing together the truth heal Grace and her sister, or will the echoes destroy everything that she holds dear?

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Echoes of Grace
(Updated: July 14, 2022)
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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5.0
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Grace struggles to understand her gift of 'echoes' where she has visions that distort her past. One morning when tragedy hits, the echoes come full force. One of them has her remembering three years previously when she escapes after her mother's murder to Mexico. Once there she stumbles into the home of her grandmother. A grandmother she was told had died. But once there she finds her grandmother is very much alive. Past and present mingle together into a huge puzzle. A puzzle Grace tries to piece together to find the truth about what really happened to her mother. She needs to do this in order to heal both her and her sister.

What worked: Wow. Just wow. I love McCall's novels and this one held me on the edge of my seat. Such powerful writing! Grace has echoes or visions. This gift runs in her family. The relationship between Grace and her sister Mercy is so real and authentic. Grace is the nurturing one in the family and when tragedy hits, that's when her visions grow stronger.

Love the Mexican backdrop and how McCall shows a family in need of healing. There are secrets that hold back the family from moving forward. The weaving back and forth between time works. Readers see what happened three years previously in a small Mexican town. The trauma holds on to Grace's grandmother's house like a poltergeist with a horrific secret.

The relationship between Grace and Mercy is a complex one. Just like how it is with sisters. There's a bond that is tested and one that needs secrets to be revealed in order to heal.

Atmospheric contemporary Latinx Gothic tale meets Rebecca where visions lead a girl to confront deadly secrets from the past in order to heal. Totally recommend!
Good Points
1. Haunting modern-day Gothic tale
2. Atmospheric story with paranormal elements that show intergeneration trauma through the eyes of one sister who shares a gift of seeing ghosts and the past
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