Echo
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3.6 • 27 Ratings
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Publisher Description
From international bestselling sensation Thomas Olde Heuvelt comes Echo, a thrilling descent into madness and obsession as one man confronts nature—and something even more ancient and evil answers back.
“A compulsive page-turner mixing supernatural survival horror and adventure.” —Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers' Club
Locus Award Finalist!
Nature is calling—but they shouldn't have answered.
Travel journalist and mountaineer Nick Grevers awakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. Nick’s own injuries are as extensive as they are horrifying. His face wrapped in bandages and unable to speak, Nick claims amnesia—but he remembers everything.
He remembers how he and Augustin were mysteriously drawn to the Maudit, a remote and scarcely documented peak in the Swiss Alps.
He remembers how the slopes of Maudit were eerily quiet, and how, when they entered its valley, they got the ominous sense that they were not alone.
He remembers: something was waiting for them...
But it isn’t just the memory of the accident that haunts Nick. Something has awakened inside of him, something that endangers the lives of everyone around him…
It’s one thing to lose your life. It’s another to lose your soul.
Also by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Hex
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Olde Heuvelt (Hex) loads this smart tale of a young man's dehumanization with extravagant horror tropes while expertly avoiding cliché. By the time Swiss rescuers reach stranded mountaineer Nick Grevers, his face has been horrifically mutilated and his climbing partner, Augustin, has gone missing. Sam Avery, Nick's lover, struggles to cope with the suggestion that whatever happened on the mountain was no accident, while Nick wonders whether he's becoming a monster as he tries to understand why he and Augustin felt compelled to climb the innocent-looking little peak of Le Maudit in the first place. As Nick's violent impulses slowly overtake him post-rescue, he worries that he may now embody Le Maudit's "old and dangerous" soul. Sam, meanwhile, investigates what happened to Nick and to others who have strayed too close to Le Maudit—including the 32 people who died violently at the hospital where Nick recuperates and all those who've committed suicide since. Olde Heuvelt expertly contrasts Nick's somber desperation and Sam's desperate optimism to create a moving narrative that stops just short of going over the top. Horror fans will be thrilled.
Customer Reviews
See AllGreat beginning, kinda went off the rails.
Excellent opening, so atmospheric and full of dread. I applaud the author’s ability to give the characters very different voices. But once we get into Nick’s story, it got too long, repetitive, and slow. It was like an info dump on mountaineering, such a windup to what happened to Nick’s face that it became anticlimactic. Then the very end was a little too out there for me. Maybe something was lost in the translation.
Another wonderful read
So much respect for Thomas Olde Heuvelt, a truly unique story teller. Like all of his books you get drawn in and enjoy the ride until the very last word. Any horror/thriller fan will appreciate his work.
Couldn’t push any farher
I really liked the author’s other book, Hex, but this book is a mess. Great premise, but the writing is all over the place. I got 75% through the book, but couldn’t make myself keep going.