Review: Where Are You, Echo Blue? by Hayley Krischer

Where Are You, Echo Blue? by Hayley Krischer

Blurb from Goodreads:

A smart, juicy, and page-turning novel about celebrity, fandom, and the price of ambition following a journalist's obsessive search for a missing Hollywood starlet

When Echo Blue, the most famous child star of the nineties, disappears ahead of a highly publicized television appearance on the eve of the millennium, the salacious theories instantly start swirling. Mostly, people assume Echo has gotten herself in trouble after a reckless New Year’s Eve. But Goldie Klein, an ambitious young journalist who also happens to be Echo's biggest fan, knows there must be more to the story. Why, on the eve of her big comeback, would Echo just go missing without a trace?

After a year of covering dreary local stories for Manhattan Eye, Goldie is sure this will be her big break. Who better to find Echo Blue, and tell her story the right way, than her? And so, Goldie heads to L.A. to begin a wild search that takes her deep into Echo’s complicated life in which parental strife, friend break ups, rehab stints, and bad romances abound. But the further into Echo’s world Goldie gets, the more she questions her own complicity in the young star’s demise . . . yet she cannot tear herself away from this story, which has now consumed her entirely. Meanwhile, we also hear Echo's side of things from the beginning, showing a young woman who was chewed up and spit out by Hollywood as so many are, and who may have had to pay the ultimate price.

As these young women's poignant and unexpected journeys unfold, and eventually meet, Where Are You, Echo Blue? interrogates celebrity culture, the thin line between admiration and obsession, and what it means to tell other peoples’ stories, all while ushering us on an unruly ride to find out what did become of Echo Blue.

My Review:

I enjoyed this a lot -- Echo Blue is almost the same age as me in the book so I could understand the context.  The author did an amazing job writing dual POV and I was intrigued!  I didn't know how it would end but I loved how it did end. If you have ever been a true fan of someone, you will understand this book. I would definitely recommend!

Where Are You, Echo Blue? comes out next week on July 16, 2024, and you can purchase HERE!  

I thought of my mother warning me about how pot could be laced with absolutely anything, and I considered vomiting up the cookie, but it had been a while and I wouldn't be able to get it up. I didn't want to go through my whole life thinking everything was dangerous. No, I had to embrace this moment. It was going to be a ticket for my new life. I was going to find Echo. I would charm Jamie Blue. I was going to be on one of those "twenty-three under twenty-three" lists. I was going to go in a hot tub, and I was going to casually interview Jamie Blue just to prove my mother wrong. Spite was a powerful intoxicant.