Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Isaac & Egg by Bobby Palmer

20 reviews

novelshire's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Death of parent, Car accident, and Panic attacks/disorders

basil_touche's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Self harm, Alcoholism, and Car accident

annatroughton's review against another edition

emotional funny sad slow-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death of parent, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Suicide attempt, Death, and Suicidal thoughts

kim_lommaert's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief and Death

Moderate: Alcohol

Minor: Car accident, Self harm, Suicide attempt, and Panic attacks/disorders

gracefg's review against another edition

emotional mysterious medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Death, Grief, Suicide, Car accident, Alcohol, and Suicidal thoughts

emilylouisa's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Car accident, and Addiction

xio72's review against another edition

emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad fast-paced

4.25

...wow. I'm devastated.

I really want Egg to be real.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Alcohol, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Car accident

eds123's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful sad medium-paced

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

5.0

My mum recommended me this book, genuinely one of the most beautiful things I've read. Through most of it I found myself laughing or absolutely sobbing, it was one of the most honest depictions of depression and dissociation I've read, and was a really easy book to read and get absorbed in.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Moderate: Car accident

Minor: Child death

lucyatoz's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

I cannot write a review to this debut novel by a talent storyteller apart from to say that it is a unique, quirky, funny and tender story and like nothing I have ever read before. It made me laugh and cry and is quite wonderful. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Death, Grief, and Mental illness

madamelacy's review against another edition

challenging 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

3.75

This story is variously heart wrenching and gently funny as it follows the main character’s journey through grief, helped by the presence of Egg. For much of the book it’s unclear what Egg is, but whatever he is he’s an endearing character. I thought Egg’s attempts at making baked beans on toast were hilarious. 

I really enjoyed the story overall, although I did find the plot predictable. 

I loved the playfulness of the formatting and font within the book, especially the word search with the stages of grief and the cascade of questions. 

I would suggest looking at trigger warnings though because it’s potentially more harrowing than it would first appear.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Blood, and Death

Moderate: Self harm and Suicidal thoughts

Minor: Car accident