When an Echo Returns

Echo Branson #2

by Linda Kay Silva

The bayou where Echo Branson finally found a home has been swept away, and the survivors need her help.

Echo and her friends expect to wield shovels, not their powers, to resurrect their one place of safety. But something other than their home has been uprooted by the hurricane. It’s looking for prey, starting with Echo’s friends.

Fighting to survive under the onslaught of supernatural evil, Echo and her friends face their greatest threat with their powers and lives balanced against an implacable force. It comes first for Melika, and the battle is on.

When an Echo Comes Back is the second in popular author Linda Kay Silva's electrifying new paranormal series featuring empath Echo Branson.

Genres: Lesbian, Fantasy, Paranormal, LGBT, Queer, Lesbian Fiction

288 pages, Paperback

First published March 15, 2011

About the author

Linda Kay Silva, a.k.a. Storm, lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her partner and a menagerie of animals. She wakes up happy, laughs all day long, and lives a life that had included African safaris, Thai temples, riding Harleys, and floating down rivers on bamboo rafts. By day, she is a World, American, British, Asian, and Women’s Literature Professor at a military university. By night, she is a lover of all things zombie-esque and will watch any movie where a zombie eats a human being. She’s has been known to offer parts in her books to her students, who touch her life as much as she hopes she touches theirs. She is proud to be with Sapphire Books and looks forward to a long and satisfying writing career with them. Linda Kay prides herself on responding to everyone who has ever written her, and she encourages you to join her and Sapphire Books on Facebook.

Linda Kay Silva is the recipient of the 2013 Alice B. Medal for her body of work.

aka Alex Westmore

Reviews

[Lex Kent · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 1/2 Stars. This is the second book in the Echo series. It was not quite as good as the first, but it still held up.
Echo leaves California to return to her old home in New Orleans. She and her adopted family of supernaturals are called back to help because of Hurricane Katrina. Parts of this book were not easy to read. Even though it's fiction, it really touched on the horrors of Katrina. So many people died, and help was so slow by our government, it was tough to read about it again. It just makes you sick in the pit of your stomach what we let happen to our own people, in our own country.
I think Silva did a good job of writing about such a tough subject, and made it into an exciting fiction story.
I do have to say Echo drove me a bit nuts. I really like her as a character, but she can be very wishy-washy. In this book she is in love with 2 women. And way to much time was spent on trying to decide who she should be with. She needs to pick one and stick with it. I really like Linda Kay Silva, but she did the same thing to Quin in The Plundered Chronicles, in love with too many women and she can't pick one. (Linda writes under the pen name Alex Westmore now)
The book did move the story along with hints about changes for Echo, as a supernatural and her life, so I'm excited to see what will happen in the coming books. I just hope Echo will pick a women she loves and have a little romance. A little romance would add a lot to these books.
I would still recommend these books to paranormal fans, just start at book 1, these do not really stand alone.

[Celina · Rating 2 out of 5]

All that good chemistry, sketchy, but still good chemistry wasted like that.

[MaxDisaster · Rating 4 out of 5]

4,0 stars
Well, I liked it a bit less than the first one. Mostly because I like Tip as a character and don't appreciate her being yanked around like this. We'll see what the third book does about it.

[D. Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved the first book in this series and loved this one, too. Ms. Silva tells a good story and has developed a very believable world where her characters with special talents dwell. This is a series I'll keep reading because I like it so much. However, if Ms. Silva is reading this review ... more of Tip, please. And, IMHO, I think she's the only woman for Echo. Just sayin'...

[Alealea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Huh !
I didn't enjoy this one as much as the previous one.

While I think LKS managed to express the horror of Katrina (though quite not as well as J.M. Redmann), I was not convinced by the whole "awakening" thread which seems to demean the previous book.

Too much talking and not much acting up was a bit annoying.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

The concept is amazing, the story powerful. I wish that were the only reason I sped through this book, but the unbelievable amount of repetition meant I was skimming large portions of text. Sometimes the exact same information would be given three times in as many pages. It was almost insulting, as if the author expects the reader to have the attention span of a cat. The characters are good enough that I'll keep reading the series, but I'll feel slightly masochistic doing so.

[Ulla · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the second Echo novel just as much as the first one. I admire the way Linda Kay Silva writes about these paranormal people so they feel absolutely "normal", so much so I'm beginning to search for some paranormal powers in myself! Can't wait for the third one - until August! *sigh*

[Cheryl · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one was a bit of a let down for me after reading the fourth book and then the first book in that order. You know how in a series sometimes one of the books in a series is literally just a vehicle to get from point A to point B? This is one of those books...

[Ruth · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the first Echo book and am looking forward to reading this one. This was very interesting and I look forward to the next one.