Eyes Falling Down

by Jeremy NeeDLE

published by Evil Nerd Empire

(2008)

ISBN: 1-4196-5573-6

Review by Ty Schwamberger

11.28.2009

Eyes Falling Down by Jeremy NeeDLE (as it is spelled on the front cover of the book) is a Pre-Apocalypse Mythology - or so it says on the inside of the book.

There are way too many characters, plot and sub-plot lines to go into here. Instead, I will state a basic overview of the book.

Ultimately, the main character in this book is a guy named, Thade. He works in technical support for a PC game designer. He fields calls all day from ignorant people that sometimes don’t even know how to insert the CD-ROM into the computer. Thade not only has to put up with ignorant people on the phone all day (when he does answer an in-coming call), but also has to deal with the disappearance of his wife, Yvette. She is gone and nowhere to be found. All her things were still at their house at the time of her disappearance and Thade has no idea where to look, and in the beginning, no one to help him find her.

He uses the love (or not) of their marriage to start wandering the streets in search of her. When doing so, he comes face to face with hallucinations and strange human and non-human people. It is these non-human characters that ultimately help Thade find out what happened to his wife and in the end, his own place in the world he now lives in.

This was an OK book. The basic storyline had the potential to be good, if it wasn’t interrupted by the ongoing introduction of additional characters and the strange, though sometimes comical, sub-plot twists.

In addition, I understand that the publisher, Evil Nerd Empire, is a bit of an alternative type book venture, but in my opinion the layout (including the ever-changing text fonts and the inclusion of pictures throughout the book) was very distracting and difficult to keep focus on the story itself.

In conclusion, if this story would have been more tightly written and the unnecessary font changes and pictures had not been included, this would be a book I would recommend to readers that are into this genre.