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A review by katykelly
The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
5.0
It starts at the end, with 17 year old Alex being stopped by the police. Then he rewinds the narrative to explain his life up to this point.
I got totally sucked into Alex's story. His life as a series of chance events (being only the second person ever to be hit by a meteor, developing epilepsy), all leading him towards the friendship of Mr Peterson and to his maturation into a young man with incredibly adult and difficult choices to make.
The book is all about chance and choice - what happens to us affects who we are. Our choices stay with us forever and have to be thought through.
By the end I had a deep respect for Alex and the adult he had made himself become.
A touching story, one I couldn't put down.
I got totally sucked into Alex's story. His life as a series of chance events (being only the second person ever to be hit by a meteor, developing epilepsy), all leading him towards the friendship of Mr Peterson and to his maturation into a young man with incredibly adult and difficult choices to make.
The book is all about chance and choice - what happens to us affects who we are. Our choices stay with us forever and have to be thought through.
By the end I had a deep respect for Alex and the adult he had made himself become.
A touching story, one I couldn't put down.