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Echo

by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
David Wayman
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NATURE IS CALLING—but they shouldn't have answered.
"A compulsive page-turner mixing supernatural survival horror and ... adventure." — Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Pallbearers' Club
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.
From the international bestselling sensation Thomas Olde Heuvelt comes a thrilling descent into madness and obsession as one man confronts nature—and something even more ancient and evil answers back.
A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire.

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    February 8, 2022

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      • ISBN: 9781250824493
      • File size: 543803 KB
      • Duration: 18:52:55

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      December 20, 2021
      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.

    • Library Journal

      June 1, 2022

      The novel's prologue demonstrates Heuvelt's (Hex) deftness in the genre and is sure to draw listeners in with perfectly eerie events that precede a maddening cliff-hanger. What follows blends a psychological exploration of a man coping with his boyfriend's face being destroyed in a mountaineering incident and uncanny events centering on that boyfriend and his bandaged face. Throughout the novel, tensions continuously elevate and listeners will be sure that they've reached breaking point. But, much like the mountain peaks this novel centers upon, there's another rise just out of sight. The skillful writing and narration ensure that each new spike of horror or line of creeping dread anchors the reader in the characters' journeys. The three narrators, David Wayman, Greg Lockett, and Lauryn Allman, are excellent in their own right and would have been able to carry the story on their own, but together they provide distinct voices and styles that immediately orient listeners in what could have been a convoluted experience. VERDICT There is enough body horror to turn away the faint of heart, but it's all worth the shocking yet touching ending.--Matthew Galloway

      Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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