Reviews - The Eyes and the Impossible

860 reviews for:

The Eyes and the Impossible

Dave Eggers

4.25 AVERAGE

homeroid's review against another edition

4.0

What a sweet book about friendship and doing something heroic.

julierebecca21's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

kryston's review against another edition

5.0

Freakin’ loved this book! If you are able to listen to the audio version read by Ethan Hawk it is fabulously performed! But don’t miss out on the book version too as the illustrations are pretty cool.

boyz4liar's review against another edition

4.0

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

readonrita's review against another edition

5.0

emotional funny medium-paced

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Beautiful story. Great vocabulary development opportunities in the book. Well loved by me and my 7 year old.

booksblabbering's review against another edition

3.75

This was ADORABLE.

This is told from the perspective of a dog, stream of consciousness style from a hyperactive free dog loving life in a wild park. If that doesn’t sell you I don’t know what will.

I was laughing, smiling, and definitely wanting to become an animal to join in on their shenanigans.

This is supposed to be a children’s book, but anyone can enjoy it. The tone isn’t overly childish, the plot isn’t plain or boring.

Despite the bragging of Johannes, the off-key humour, it never becomes so cringy that older readers will be put off. Yet it also appeals to young readers.

What made this so great is Johannes’s genuine excitement at everything. It was extremely refreshing. There are MANY hyperboles and exaggerations yet this added to Johannes’s over the top character and perception.

<b>“If we go through life assuming everything will be complicated, and then it is complicated, doesn’t that make us better prepared? What I mean is, if we expect life to be complicated, and life is complicated, then life is simple, right?”

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I would recommend the audibook format because it just added so much more to the telling. The narrator embodied the voice of this naive, innocent, funny, arrogant, and brave dog.

Audiobook arc gifted Belinda Audio.