I can’t write more because I don’t want to spoil the novel. Yes, the fun bits are still there but too much accent was put on a certain plot twist, so to say. Then, as I should have known if I had read more YA, the fun stopped. So it goes.įor two thirds of this novel I had a blast, I chuckled many times and I absolutely loved the character and the humour. Too bad that the novel features heavy spoilers for Sirens of Titans which I haven’t read but it is planned to be my next KV. Another 2 novels and 1 short story later I thought I was good enough. I told myself that I will not start right away with the book, I will wait until I read enough KV to be knowledgeable enough and avoid spoilers. Around that time I read my first two novels by Vonnegut and I was a new member of the fandom. What attracted me to it was the name and, based on the blurb, the love of the main character for Kurt Vonnegut. I bought this book back in 2014 and I only got to read it now. So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped at Dover customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urn full of ashes on the passenger seat and an entire nation in uproar, he's fairly sure he's done the right thing. That you have to make the best possible choices. Someone who tells him that you only get one shot at life. What he doesn't know yet is that when he meets ill-tempered, reclusive widower Mr Peterson, he'll make an unlikely friend. He also knows that even the most improbable events can happen - he's got the scars to prove it.
He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant single mother won't endear him to the local bullies. Alex Woods knows that he hasn't had the most conventional start in life. And it might just strike you as one of the funniest, most heartbreaking novels you've ever read. A tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero and an improbable journey, Alex's story treads the fine line between light and dark, laughter and tears.
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