5/19/2023 0 Comments The universe versus alex woodsThe meteor incident set Alex apart as different and his natural awkwardness made him a social outcast. The rest of the book is a fairly solid coming of age story, but sadly a fairly plodding one. The problem with such an awesome beginning is that the rest of the book has to live up to it, and in the case of Alex Woods, Gavin Extence was unable to maintain the momentum. The quote in the previous paragraph is on page 15, and comes only a few pages after Alex explains that the marijuana was indeed for personal use, just not his personal use but rather Mr Petersen’s, and that he hadn’t been resisting arrest, but rather been experiencing an epileptic seizure that may or may not be linked to having been hit by a meteor years ago. The Universe versus Alex Woods starts off with a promising beginning. “Yes,” Alex tells the cop who pulls him over. He forms a friendship with a curmudgeonly old man, and when the book opens, is caught in a car with 113 grams of marijuana and an urn of ashes. The plot seemed to have just the type of quirkiness I love – seventeen year old Alex Woods had been hit by a meteor at age ten, and his life hasn’t been the same since.
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