I enjoyed reading Egg Island, and I did read it fairly quickly, but I found the characters quite difficult to become invested in. The concept was interesting and there was a lot to love, but I never felt really connected!

I really wanted to like this book. The title was great, the cover was great, the premise was great. I did not like this book as it felt too disconnected for me, lots of stuff happened but I could not understand how it all fit. I did not have a good sense of why Julia was on this quest in the first place or what Egg Island really could do. I did not understand why Julia was always lying to people or being awful to people. There were interesting story threads that never were resolved, the story just moved on to the describe the next encounter, so it just felt like a string of things they saw and said with a variety of characters that didn't tie together. .

'To climb back in through that washroom window and go forward, while our stomachs were still happy, stuffed with blueberry pie, into our whole, brief future of no missing parts.'

I liked this line but the book felt like there were a lot of missing parts for me. It takes great talent to write a book and get published, something I have never done. As a reader, this story was not for me but I hope it will be for someone.

Thank you to Dundurn Press for an early copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.

I really have no clue where to start with this book. The best I can come up with is it leaves you wanting. Not in a good way though, or maybe? The book seemed to have a rushed start, but it didn’t really get better. The premise is good, yet nothing ever seems fully developed. Not the characters, not their relationships, not the plot. It is a lot of dialog that doesn’t seem to go anywhere. It would be ok if I had a connection to any of the characters or the plot, at all. I want more from all of it, because I truly think there is a good story to be told here. I’m giving it 3 stars in hopes that the author, editor, publisher will see this and pull it all together. I really wanted to love this book.
I dont even know how to classify this… mystery, adventure, fiction, I just dont know.

I loved the characters in this story. I loved the writing. I enjoyed the first half of the book. The ending however, left me wanting more. Also there was a lot of things not answered. I thought this was going to be magical realism, surrealism, or partly paranormal...but I don't THINK it's was. That's what I'm saying, is that too many things were left unanswered.