Echo After Echo
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Zara Evans has come to the Aurelia Theater, home to the visionary director Leopold Henneman, to play her dream role in Echo and Ariston, the Greek tragedy that taught her everything she knows about love. When the director asks Zara to promise that she will have no outside commitments, no distractions, it’s easy to say yes. But it’s hard not to be distracted when there’s a death at the theater — and then another — especially when Zara doesn’t know if they’re accidents, or murder, or a curse that always comes in threes. It’s hard not to be distracted when assistant lighting director Eli Vasquez, a girl made of tattoos and abrupt laughs and every form of light, looks at Zara. It’s hard not to fall in love. In heart-achingly beautiful prose, A.R. Capetta has spun a mystery and a love story into an impossible, inevitable whole — and cast lantern light on two girls, finding each other on a stage set for tragedy.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Capetta (Entangled) seamlessly weaves a murder mystery and stirring love story into a suspenseful novel set in Manhattan's theater community. "Backbiting" doesn't begin to evoke the menacing atmosphere of Broadway's Aurelia Theater, to which Pennsylvania high school senior Zara impulsively sends an audition tape for her favorite Greek tragedy, Echo and Ariston. That the intimidating and world-famous director Leopold Henneman selects Zara for Echo is only one of many shocks: there's the dead body Zara finds on her first day in the Aurelia, a second death during rehearsals, and the ominous warnings that begin to come Zara's way. Then there is 19-year-old Eliza "Eli" Vasquez, the assistant lighting designer who is immediately drawn to Zara. As Zara struggles through rehearsals with her celebrity costar and one-on-one sessions with director Henneman, who is prone to frightening visions, she is also falling for Eli. A complex cast of suspicious characters, a relentless undercurrent of fear, sophisticated plot development, and the lyrical language Capetta uses to describe Zara's and Eli's passion for their work and for each other make this an exceptionally compelling read. Ages 14 up.
