Immerse In The Egg Said Nothing Conceived By Caris OMalley Delivered In Digital Edition

Egg Said Nothing is a hot mess of awesomesauce, It's hard to avoid spoilers when discussing this book, but I've dosed this review with them liberally,

First off, the main character is a hot mess, He can barely keep his shit together, An utter basket case who would likely be a suicide risk if observed by a doctor, The guy lives off spare change collected from water fountains, and his mother's deceased husband's pension.
He has zero relationships until now Dunt, duhdunt duhnnn! MAJOR SPOILER:He kills her, Sort of. Not sort of kills her, she is killed, It's just sort of him, Ermm. Never mind.

Second off, the plot involves a hot mess of time travel.
The Egg Said Nothing has a web of time traveling lines that looks like this:



It's like an angry fist of pathways through time and space.
Really, don't try to make sense of it, Don't. Don't think too hard. Just enjoy the brilliance of MAJOR SPOILER a guy who goes back in time over and over again trying to kill himself in an orgy of selfsuicide bombers.
It hardly matters if it could really be charted out logically, The Egg Said Nothing is not a logical story it's an emotional one, The Egg Said Nothing is a story about selfhatred, Delusion. It's a metaphor for how we sabotage ourselves, It's about blame with maybe a little forgiveness, It's about how a twisted childhood can result in a loop of selfdestruction,

This is a short novella, so there's no reason not to give it a read, It might just give you a good whack in the head with a shovel, . . treat your kids right or the results won't be pretty, Although it might make for an interesting story,

The back of the book does give away this particular plot twist, but I'm not going to give it away here, I usually don't read the backs of books because I prefer to let the author take me through the plot, Until he laid the egg, Manny's life consisted of hanging around his apartment and fishing coins out of fountains, Now, he's got a girlfriend of sorts and keeps getting harassed about the egg, So what's inside

Sometimes, you read a book and wonder how the hell it ever got published, Other times, you read a book and it's so good you want to track the author down and call him a son of a bitch, The Egg Said Nothing is of the second type,

The Egg Said Nothing is quite a ride, Born out of an unholy union beteen National Novel Writing Month and the New Bizarro Author Series, Caris O'Malley introduces the reader to Manny, a shutin who has an important destiny.
If the story had only been about the relationship between Manny and Ashley, I'd probably have given it a, Caris wrote a quirky yet beautiful relationship, even more impressive because it's his first book, A girl that smells like old books Sign me up! The egg seemed like an afterthought once Manny met Ashley, Then the egg broke and all hell broke loose,

I hate to admit it but while I enjoyed the time travel portion of the story quite a bit, I would have preferred more of the relationshippy stuff.
Once the multiple Manny's showed up, I had a feeling how things were going to go down, The ending twist was well done, straight out of a Twilight Zone episode, brutal but somehow hopeful, There isn't a lot more I can say without giving too much away,

The verdict.out of. This is not one to miss, I shall look forward to Caris' future endeavors with great interest,

Side Note: Obnoxious Goodreads authors take note, Caris O'Malley happens to be a fairly prominent reviewer on Goodreads and doesn't even have an author profile, Pretty sneaky. You can find an interview I did with him sitelinkhere
Dear Caris,

Do you mind if I call you that It's how you signed your most recent message so I'm assuming that we're on a firstname basis now.
Please let me know if I'm being too forward because my social ineptitude likes to make itself known even on the internets,

I've been meaning to read "The Egg" for quite some time but prefer doing almost everything in the hazy future, What finally propelled me toward your novella were two overwhelmingly common factors in all the reviews I read: One, everyone seemed to either like it quite a bit or REALLY like it more than just a bit and two, no one is willing to say much about why they liked it so much for fear, they say, of divulging too much of the plot and ruining the firsttime reading experience for others.


Sure, I was starting to wonder if the latter phenomenon was a copout or simply lazy reviewing, Then I thought maybe some folks were conspiring to shroud "The Egg" in mystery so that those of us who are insatiably inquisitive would have to break down and buy the book to stave off the creeping madness that too much unresolved curiosity brings.
Finally, I considered that maybe some reviewers were following the novella's titular action and, in fact, deliberately said nothing, Turns out, I was wrong on all counts: It really is hard to offer a detailed commentary on such a tightly written piece without spoiling the surprises that make "The Egg" such a joy to read.
Will I follow previous reviewers' tactful lead Meh, not entirely,

So! Let's talk about your book a little rather, let me talk vaguely about how fucking rad your book is, Because it is. So far as I can remember last week was a long time ago, I had exactly one issue with it: Every time I glanced at the page number, the book was closer to being over.
Maybe you can work on that for your followup offering I'm sure there's a fancy, newfangled way to push a novel into the infinitepagecount realm these days.
Seriously. Look into that, okay

By the time Manny and Ashley found themselves in a laundromat, I was desperately wishing that someone would make this into a movie.
Even with a giant egg and paradoxes born of time travel, yours is a thoroughly relatable piece of fiction, In fact, the juxtaposition of Manny's believable reactions, motivations and wishes against the unbelievably crazy shit that dogs him created more effective suspense than I've seen in books three times as long.
To steal a line I previously used, what I liked best about your book and I did like an awful lot about it is that

Manny remains convincingly, sympathetically human while dealing with some.
well, bizarre problems,

To further rip off a previous communique of mine, it seemed that your book had something to say about the uselessness of fighting what's fated to be for the sake of an individual's shortsighted desires a biggerpicture, greatergood sort of moral, if you will.
It is downright refreshing to encounter a timetravel tale that didn't blindly accept the sanctity of the future, which is how I imagine a reallife confrontation with time travel would actually go down.
Whether it was my own weakness for broken, downontheirluck characters, Manny's genuine likability or a combination of the two, it was increasingly difficult to watch the protagonist's honest efforts to fix things himself only further ensnare him in his increasingly upsidedown existence.


In the end, I came for the bizarro I stayed because I got way too emotionally invested in the characters, Please don't ever abandon the cruel mistress that is wordslinging, You've got a lot to offer her, And your readers.


Fondly,
Madeleine


P, S. : Please note how I did not once call your story "eggscellent, " I need a cigarette after the kind of willpower I've demonstrated in avoiding such an obvious opportunity for punny business,

P. P. S. : I fucking HATE clowns but would put aside that phobia long enough to read about them if you're the one at the tale's helm, The gloryhole story, however, shouldn't even be a question, Kindly add me to the list of people who want to read that yesterday, .