A review by janewhitehurst
The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith

4.0

The Alex Crow is one of those books that you just cannot put down. Then, when you've finished, you sit and think 'what the fuck just happened?' And I mean this in the best way possible. The Alex Crow takes all the great elements of Grasshopper Jungle and merges them with all the great elements of Winger. It was bizarre, but Andrew Smith is so amazing at creating likable characters, it totally worked. It's told by 3 vastly different narrators- one a young boy named Ariel who was recently rescued from a Middle Eastern war zone and given a new home in America, the next a Schizophrenic maniac driving through the country with a homemade bomb, and the third an explorer from the 19th century who is aboard a ship trapped in Antarctica. I know, I told you it's bizarre. But it's also wonderful.