REVIEW - EVERYTHING MATTERS

"Everything Matters" by Ron Currie, Jr.
Product Description(Amazon.com)
In infancy, Junior Thibodeaux is encoded with a prophesy: a comet will obliterate life on Earth in thirty-six years. Alone in this knowledge, he comes of age in rural Maine grappling with the question: Does anything I do matter? While the voice that has accompanied him since conception appraises his choices, Junior's loved ones emerge with parallel stories-his anxious mother; his brother, a cocaine addict turned pro-baseball phenomenon; his exalted father, whose own mortality summons Junior's best and worst instincts; and Amy, the love of Junior's life and a North Star to his journey through romance and heartbreak, drug-addled despair, and superheroic feats that could save humanity. While our recognizable world is transformed into a bizarre nation at endgame, where government agents conspire in subterranean bunkers, preparing citizens for emigration from a doomed planet, Junior's final triumph confounds all expectation, building to an astonishing and deeply moving resolution. Ron Currie, Jr., gets to the heart of character, and the voices who narrate this uniquely American tour de force leave an indelible, exhilarating impression.
# Hardcover: 320 pages
# Publisher: Viking Adult (June 25, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0670020923
# ASIN: B002XULWLG

MY THOUGHTS: This was a very good book if you like looking at someone's imagination working. I love reading these kinds of books. It lets my imagination run free in trying to see what the author is trying to say. Mr. Currie is a wonderful writer, keeping you on the edge of your seat, waiting for the next event to happen. All of the characters were very believable. What I really found fascinating was the beginning of the book. The first chapter is called, In Utero, Infancy. The description of this is so real you can believe this is really happening. Does the prophesy come true for Junior Thibodeaux? Does the world he know come to an end? You will have to read the book to find out.

MY RATING: 5

[This is a free review book.]