Review of 'The Universe Versus Alex Woods' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Wow what an amazing story at times it was very light hearted and quirky, at other times it was pretty dark and moving.
I liked all the characters in this book with the possible exception of the bullies, but with the rules of bullying laid out you end up just laughing at their attempts to be big and mean.
The journey that the friendship between Alex and Mr Peterson takes is one that you can't help becoming part of, I am sure many people have cried whilst reading this.
The book loses one of its stars because it tries to be clever at the beginning by starting with the end and for me it gave too much away, I instantly figured out what was going to happen and that took away a lot of the mystery for me. If only a line was removed about the state of Mr Peterson …
Wow what an amazing story at times it was very light hearted and quirky, at other times it was pretty dark and moving.
I liked all the characters in this book with the possible exception of the bullies, but with the rules of bullying laid out you end up just laughing at their attempts to be big and mean.
The journey that the friendship between Alex and Mr Peterson takes is one that you can't help becoming part of, I am sure many people have cried whilst reading this.
The book loses one of its stars because it tries to be clever at the beginning by starting with the end and for me it gave too much away, I instantly figured out what was going to happen and that took away a lot of the mystery for me. If only a line was removed about the state of Mr Peterson then all would have been ok.
Now I got to just home they don't ruin everything and make it into a movie.