'Echo Boy' is set in the future. It follows a teenager called Audrey, whose father writes books and leads protests against a new technology, Echoes.

Echoes act human but their brains are wired like a machine's. But when her parents buy an Echo, going against all her father's principles, Audrey's life is turned upside-down. Her parents are killed and Audrey is forced to flee her family home in Yorkshire. She winds up living with her millionaire uncle, and his mysterious 10-year-old son, who own a company that makes Echoes. This doesn't make the healing process after what happened to Audrey any better. Then she meets Daniel.

He is an almost-Echo and he changes her views and outlook on the new world. Their relationship shouldn't work but when it leads to uncovering exactly what happens to her parents, Audrey realises that her uncle isn't what he seems and neither is Daniel – that's why she isn't safe on this planet...

I really enjoyed Echo Boy because of the way Haig introduces and portrays the characters. The story is written from the point of view of both Daniel and Audrey from inside their minds. This gives you an idea of how they are feeling all the time and how they react to the other characters. The book does take a while to get into because of the amount of background information Audrey gives at the very beginning of the book about what happens on the day her parents are killed.

I would recommend this book to teenagers because it does make you think about what could happen in the next one hundred years because drastic world changes seem inevitable.

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