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goldenbooksgirl 's review for:
See You in the Cosmos
by Jack Cheng
After having this recommended to me by several people since it came out, I finally picked it up this month and I wasn’t disappointed. This book tells the story of 12-year-old Alex, a young boy whose main life ambition is to send a rocket to space, as he goes on a road trip to find his missing dad and ends up finding a whole lot more than that. Even though I found the writing style of Alex`s recordings for aliens difficult to get into at first, I absolutely loved it by the end as it was so immersive. I also adored the characters of this book as even minor characters who only appeared in a few scenes felt fleshed out and developed, but my favourite had to be main character Alex, who is one of the most endearing and loveable protagonists I`ve ever had the pleasure of spending a book with. I cried more than once while reading this book as Alex felt so real and so special, and I desperately wanted to climb in and give him a hug on more than one occasion. Finally, I really liked that this was a road trip book, as I don’t recall ever reading this in middle grade before, and if I have I certainly didn’t enjoy it as much as I did this. In short, this was a unique, special book that I`d highly recommend to fans of books such as Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg-Sloan. 4/5