The Last Hour Between Worlds: The Sunday Times Bestseller (The Echo Archives)

First sentence: It’s easy to fall into the wrong world. Last sentence: Together, we went home. Favorite quote: “I’m on leave.” Finally a good book for me to read and enjoy this month 🥰 The plot happens all within one night, which I really like in books. There is world building that is absolutely fascinating, it feels like a lot and yet not enough at the same time. We don’t really leave one building, except for three instances, but since the scene continues to change from hour to hour, it keeps being very interesting. I love the setting, adore the characters and was very intrigued by the storyline. Even tho there is not a lot of time passing, there is still character and relationship development, but in the bounds of being realistic. Honestly, highly recommend this one for people who love this kind of set up: - One night - One place - Fantasy - Reluctantly working together - Mystery - Riddle Can’t wait to read book two.

The story is taking place at a New Year's Eve party, which gets Groundhog Day-ed by a couple of villains (or is it villain singular?). Just way more bloody and mysterious and complex. Also the time that has to be relived is not a day but an hour. And also the reruns take place in other dimensions, so-called Echoes, and the deeper down reality slips into the Echoes, the more messed up the world gets. And if the FMC doesn't solve this, people will get killed over and over. So she has to both solve the riddle and also find allies that believe her and help her. Among them an ex-crush. So far, so intriguing. What I struggled with was the way the world aka the Echoes were described. I just couldn't get a picture in my mind that fit. It's stated that these dimensions are dangerous and wildly weird, yet there's only a few instances where it's described in a way my brain could process. From everything that was stated, our MCs should have been dead seven Echoes down or sooner, but...well...they aren't. For the most time I felt lost within the dimensions , unsure what the 'game' really was about, and got a bit annoyed with the clock. So over time I got quite disconnected with the story, even though I really wished for a hook and something to reel me in. And when things became clearer about 70% in, the story had already lost me. 3,5/5 stars Thank you @netgalley and @littlebrownbookgroup_uk for the eARC! #LastHourBetweenWorlds #Netgalley #Bookstagram

What a wild ride of a book! We get thrown in right from the beginning, with the mystery unfolding over time and us discovering it together with the protagonist. However I felt like the world was too complex to just be thrown in, I would have wished for a slower start and more time to explore this world and the political and guild-related systems in it. The protagonist was well-rounded and provided plenty of room for identification, even though the whole "I have a child at home and that's my only motivation to live" fell a bit flat for me, however I'm not a Mom, so maybe I just don't get it 🙈the romance aspect was very sweet and not to big which I liked, also how they got to talk a few things out over the course of the book. All in all a very interesting concept with a nice cast of characters (though most didn't get much page-time). The writing-style was easy to understand and immersive and the pacing was good, though maybe a tiny bit slow in the middle. So not a bad book, just a little too much diving in head-first for my taste 🙈 Thanks to Orbit and Netgalley for the arc!