A review by bosbabe022
The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer

adventurous emotional funny informative mysterious sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Thanks to @Dreamscape_Media and NetGalley for the opportunity to listen to this book for an honest review. I would like to start out my review by saying I had limited to no knowledge about egg collections or the history before listening to this book. I appreciated the stories about how they were collected by those brave enough to slip into the cracks of a high ledge to retrieve them, and how doing so changed the life of one of the main characters, Celie. I’m not the biggest fan of dual perspective storylines, and this one was hard to follow until about mid book, because I didn’t understand how Patrick and “Weird Nick” would fall into the mix. I was blown away by the emotional investment I felt towards the rare eggs as the story unfolded, especially throughout Nick and Patrick’s quest to recover Nick’s stolen egg.

I wasn’t super engaged throughout the whole book, but about 2/3rds through I was very intrigued and invested in the outcome of the story and inevitably the eggs. I would recommend this to someone who had a fondness of history of collectible items, and natural history. I’m not sure it is a book I would prefer to have read without being given the option to through NetGalley, however I think it was a very interesting concept for a book and overall I liked it.