*Book source ~ ARC.
My review is voluntary and honest.
16 January 2018
Sci-Fi | YA
236 Pages
My Rating ~ 4 bites
Thirteen-year-old Adam
Helios has been the object of bullies his whole life. Lately he’s been hearing
a voice in his head, one he calls the Star Voice and it has given him the
confidence to fight back. He beats the crap out of his nemesis, Joe Sanderson,
and after his parents and Joe’s have a yelling conference with the principal, they
drive home. Or attempt to. A horrific car accident puts Adam in a coma, severely
injures his dad, and his mom, who was driving, walks away with only a few bumps
and scratches. That’s when Adam’s journey with the Star Voice truly begins.
Wow. This is one trippy
story. And quite creative. After Adam’s skull is cracked open in the car
accident, the Star Voice takes Adam’s consciousness to space (?) and there Adam
must decide whether he wants to help his new friends fight against a crippling
illness wrought by the Destroyer or just sink back to his badly damaged body
and leave them to die. Of course Adam decides to help and off he goes across the
galaxy on an adventure like none other. The story is told from both Adam’s and
his mother’s POV, so you get the fanciful action of Adam and the practical and
heart-wrenching decisions of his parent who has no idea her son’s essence is
out there in space on a quest to save some alien beings. By the end, you wonder,
was all of this real? Or did Adam imagine it all? I think the author lets the
reader decide.
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