3.5 stars- enjoyed this! the dual perspectives of echo + goldie was great. thanks netgalley + the publisher for the ARC.

Echo Blue is the incredibly famous child star, born or two other massive stars who disappears on New Years Eve at age 19. No one can find her and no one know what happened. Goldie Klein is young journalist in New York watching the live feed of her disappearance and jumps to write a story, even though most of her stories to date have been small local items and definitely did not include celebrities.

With a bit of luck, she lands permission and flies to LA. Krischer begins folding in chapters from Echo's point of view, upping the tension. You see, Goldie is a mega-fan and may have Echo's best interests mixed up with her own. Follow this thoughtful book on celebrity, acting and of course being a fan! and #penguinbooks #dutton #whereareyouechoblue #hayleykrischer

3.8
Echo's chapters, while not life changing, are reasonably entertaining and a bit more self-aware than I anticipated. Goldie's chapters, on the other hand, had a pervasive sour smelling sticky sort of film on them that was difficult to get through.

3.5 stars

I didn’t really love this book the way I thought I would. I didn’t hate it either. It’s really just not what I was expecting. I was expecting a little more lighthearted and juicy scandal, what I got was a little more serious and toxic.

Echo Blue, a very famous child star of the 1990s disappears right before her New Year’s Eve comeback appearance on MTV. Goldie Klein, a journalist and a self-described Echo “obsessive” thinks a story about what happened to her will be the big break she needs so she heads to LA to search and she begins to learn the truth about Echo’s parents (both Hollywood royalty, her Oscar win at 14, her issues with friends, her bad relationships and her struggles with fame. The story is told in alternating points of view between Echo and Goldie, then and now.

I mostly enjoyed this book about two very damaged women (despite some very odd sex scenes with Goldie that didn’t seem to fit the book at all). Echo’s problems are clear and obvious, but Goldie is part of Echo’s problem…she desperately wants to feel less lonely, and looks to the spirit of Echo to help her with that, which creates lots of pressure for young stars, then Goldie continued, as an adult, to look to Echo for fulfillment….st least this time she realizes it. Overall a good read. Recommended.