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A review by nuffy375
Everyone Says That at the End of the World by Owen Egerton
3.0
This book has a lot of wacky, fun parts, but ultimately the book doesn't quite equal the sum of its parts for me. The book goes out of its way to be more clever than you and make you sit back and go hmmm. It delves into quantum physics and religion and the nature of humanity, and there were many parts that did make me voice an impressed hmmm, but the plot itself left me unimpressed.
There's so much potential that gets squandered. With all the time travel and alternate universes and other-dimensional beings floating around the novel, I expected the story to come together in a way that would blow my mind, but the end is actually quite anticlimactic, in my opinion, and as far as I'm concerned doesn't actually work with the trajectory set up. Overall, I didn't hate it, but I wanted more from the story based on the pieces the author strung along.
Final Thoughts: The best character is a hermit crab.
There's so much potential that gets squandered. With all the time travel and alternate universes and other-dimensional beings floating around the novel, I expected the story to come together in a way that would blow my mind, but the end is actually quite anticlimactic, in my opinion, and as far as I'm concerned doesn't actually work with the trajectory set up. Overall, I didn't hate it, but I wanted more from the story based on the pieces the author strung along.
Final Thoughts: The best character is a hermit crab.