Review: "Echo North" by Joanna Ruth Meyer

Echo North by Joanna Ruth Meyer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

summary from GoodReads

"Epic and engrossing. Magic pulsates through every page.” —Kirkus, starred review

"...a compelling, satisfying romantic adventure with metafictional undertones.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A marvelous, enchanting tale about the power of love and stories.” 
—Rosamund Hodge, New York Times bestselling author of Cruel Beauty 

"...beautifully written retelling..." - School Library Journal

Echo Alkaev’s safe and carefully structured world falls apart when her father leaves for the city and mysteriously disappears. Believing he is lost forever, Echo is shocked to find him half-frozen in the winter forest six months later, guarded by a strange talking wolf—the same creature who attacked her as a child. The wolf presents Echo with an ultimatum: if she lives with him for one year, he will ensure her father makes it home safely. But there is more to the wolf than Echo realizes.

In his enchanted house beneath a mountain, each room must be sewn together to keep the home from unraveling, and something new and dark and strange lies behind every door. When centuries-old secrets unfold, Echo discovers a magical library full of books- turned-mirrors, and a young man named Hal who is trapped inside of them. As the year ticks by, the rooms begin to disappear and Echo must solve the mystery of the wolf’s enchantment before her time is up otherwise Echo, the wolf, and Hal will be lost forever.

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HOLLY WOW! This was such an amazing book! Echo's and Hal's story was one of the few that made me wish to be in that world of magic, stories and witches!
This story, which is inspired by East of the Sun, West of the Moon and also it has some elements of Beauty and the Beast, is a must read!

When Echo's family slowly crumbles after her father remarries, she will form a bargain with a mysterious wolf and join him in a magical mansion hidden from the mortal world. The mansion is filled with mysterious rooms and with a library which every bookworm would wish for! But the mansion is crumbling and the wolf is dying, and as Echo tries to find a way and save the wolf she will discover Hal, trapped in the mansion too and the mystery will make this story far more intense.

Seriously I couldn't stop reading! I loved the descriptions, the characters and the man with his wife and sweet baby! The magic and the hidden worlds within the books was the best part.

This is highly recommended to every fellow blogger who knows about a good library! ;)

About the author:

Joanna Ruth Meyer hails from Mesa, Arizona, where she lives with her dear family, a rascally feline, and an enormous grand piano. When she’s not writing, she’s trying to convince her students that Bach is actually awesome, or plotting her escape from the desert. She loves good music, thick books, looseleaf tea, rainstorms, and staring out of windows. One day, she aspires to own an old Victorian house with creaky wooden floors and a tower (for writing in, of course!).