Catching Echoes

Reconstructionist, Book 1

By: Meghan Ciana Doidge

Narrated by: Whitney Dykhouse

Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

I preferred it when life came in tidy packages. When it didn’t — when something went awry — I was exceedingly skilled at packaging it back up. It was my job to do so after all.

I was a reconstructionist. I collected the puzzle pieces, then I gave those pieces to an investigative team to sort out. I didn't ask questions. I didn't offer answers. I saw. I recorded. I moved on. I didn't dwell or obsess. I didn’t hunt down suspects. I didn’t follow clues to find a killer. And I certainly didn’t work side by side with anyone.

Least of all, a vampire who I strongly suspected might turn out to be the major missing component at the end of the trail. Then I saw something I couldn't forget. It wasn't the bloodiest thing I'd ever seen. It wasn't even close. But it haunted me. I didn't like being haunted.

And I couldn't figure out how to get it out of my head.

Someone was killing teenaged boys in the Pacific Northwest. Despite my misgivings, if I could help catch a killer, I had to at least try.

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This 68,000 word urban fantasy is the first book in the Reconstructionist series by author Meghan Ciana Doidge.

Author’s note: The ideal listening order of Catching Echoes (Reconstructionist 1) is after the first six books in the Dowser series and the three books in the Oracle series, but it's not actually necessary to listen to the Dowser or the Oracle series before listening to the Reconstructionist series.

©2016 Meghan Ciana Doidge (P)2020 Meghan Ciana Doidge

Wonderful story, great narration.

This is a great series. The characters are well developed. The story is well written and entertaining. The performance is wonderful, I've read the book and this is exactly how a I imagined.

Enjoyed

I really enjoyed this book and can’t wait for book 2. It’s a very PG book but I really like the narration. She made me stay and listen.

Eh….not for me

The book is written as if there is backstory that we already know. That backstory is brought up every chapter but never explained until the very end of the story. Even then, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s like there is an entire story that we haven’t heard that may be told later but for now we have to pretend we know what’s being talked about.

Honestly that happened a lot in this book. Lots of backstories that weren’t really delved into. The author spent more time describing clothing, food, and surroundings than expounding on the story itself.

I got kind of annoyed with the constant belittling of the main character and her never really seeming to stand up for herself. She keeps saying she stood up for herself in her past but keeps getting “put in her place” so to speak.

The story in general didn’t make much sense. Parts of it was interesting but overall I found myself lost most of the time. The way one character was introduced at the beginning turns out to be totally different. I don’t know. I just didn’t care for this book. I won’t be following the series.

The narrator does a really good job. There are times you can hear things in the background but it’s not super distracting. Very brief and few and far between.