Reviews with content warning for Car accident - Isaac and the Egg

Omg. When I tell you this book is so emotional, I’m not even lying. It took me a chapter or two to get into it but once I was passed those I just couldn’t put it down.
The book follows Isaac on a journey with “Egg” which is believed to be some sort of Alien? however, the more you read on, you realise that maybe Egg was sent to him from his wife, Mary to help him through his grief.
Egg is a loveable character and you really see how he helps Isaac to get better and you see progress with Isaac the more you read on.
The way I saw Egg was like Nanny McPhee, when you don’t want him then he must stay but when you want him but no longer need him then he must go - this pretty much sums up Egg, which you will discover why if you read this book.
I was hooked when reading this from Chapter 3 onwards and would totally recommend this to anyone who is wanting to read it!
Here are some notes I’ve made when reading the book - until I got really into it and stopped making these notes😂

“He knows this place, and he knows he didn’t walk here. He can’t have. He’s in the middle of nowhere. He’s been drinking, which is a bad sign, because he’s clearly been driving. He knows he’s been drinking because his tongue is carpeted with the taste of hours-old alcohol and he knows he’s been driving because he can still see his car at the end of the bridge, headlights still on, driver’s door still open.”

“An oval of blankness cut out of a pristine sheet of paper with children’s scissors, or an oval cut from that same pristine paper and pasted on to the clearing with a stick of children’s glue.”

“What inside? Will it be dangerous? Will it hatch anytime soon? Should I have left it in the forest? Should I take it back to where it was? Would going back just make things worse? Is it a crime to find an egg and take it home? If so, what’s the likelihood of being caught? Do I really need to go to prison over this? If so, what’s the custodial sentence? Should I dispose of the egg? Should I cook the egg? Boiled or fried?”

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

I ended up being sold on this book after reading the first page. It's bizarre premise and absurd sense of humor really appeal to my own sensiblities when it comes to fiction, while also having an emotional core that holds no barred to it's subject. The style of the writing was clear and kept my attention and the fun quirks with the typography where words move or even form the shape of an egg really added to the experience.

Egg was probably my favourite character, I kept imaginging him as being a puppet from the Jim Henson Company and the erratic wiggling of his absurdly long arms made for quite the humourous image. But, he's also essential to the darker subject matter in helping Issac acknowledge and remember the full extent of his wife's death. It's a fine balance that I think the book does with flying colours. Whether Egg was real or a memory of Mary's last book project is left for the reader to decide. I like to think it's a little of both.

I do think that the big reveal near the end of the book was obvious and that it felt a tad rushed at the end, but I still found the conclusion to be an emotional and satsifying one (I even got a little teary eyed). Really glad I read this one

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