Blood Echo (The Burning Girl, #2)

by Christopher Rice

A conspiracy that promises bloodshed and the only woman who can stop it collide in the page-turning thriller by Christopher Rice, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Bone Music.

Kidnapped and raised by serial killers, Charlotte Rowe suffered an ordeal that made her infamous. Everyone in the world knew who she was. But no one in the world has any idea what she’s become…

Charlotte is an experiment. And a weapon. Enabled by a superpower drug, she’s partnered with a shadowy pharmaceutical company to hunt down and eliminate society’s most depraved human predators. But her latest mission goes off the rails in a horrifying way. Unsettled by her own capacity for violence, Charlotte wants some time to retreat so she can work on her new relationship with Luke, a sheriff’s deputy in the isolated Central California town she now calls home.

If only the threats hadn’t followed Charlotte there.

Something sinister is evolving in Altamira, California—a massive network of domestic terrorists with ties to Charlotte’s influential and corrupt employers. As a vast and explosive criminal conspiracy grows, the fate of Charlotte’s hometown hangs in the balance. With everyone she cares about in danger, Charlotte has no choice but to bring her powers home.

Charlotte Rowe has been triggered, and now she’ll have to take matters into her own powerful hands.

• ISBN10: 1503904350
• ISBN13: 9781503904354
• Publish Date: 19 February 2019
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Thomas & Mercer
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 366
• Language: English

Reviews

[Jeff Sexton]

Burning Girl! Decepticon Toaster! I'm going to start this review with a warning I saw in another: If you have not yet read Bone Music, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK. But you should *absolutely* read Bone Music... and then you'll be desperate to get this book in your hands immediately. :D (Also, if you haven't read Bone Music yet... stop reading this review now and go read it. :) )

Arguably one of the only maybe weaknesses of Bone Music is that Burning Girl... didn't. Here, we get Burning Girl burning early enough in the tale that you almost have to know it is going to happen again somehow... and Rice doesn't disappoint.

Along the way we also get a reference to one of those jokes that *always* makes me laugh: "My wife asked me why I carry a gun in the house. I looked at her and said "Decepticons". She laughed. I laughed. The toaster laughed. I shot the toaster. It was a good day."

Ultimately this continues the excellent work Rice began in Bone Music of creating a compelling Limitless-type superhero but focusing on the various interpersonal relationships at least as much as the superpowers/ action, and is very much recommended.