Going Bovine #2

The reason why I only have 2 posts about Going Bovine is because I finished it sooner than expected. I mean, it only took we 4 days to finish it! SO, this post will just be a small summary of how I felt about the book in general and my opinions about the ending.

Ok, to start off, I knew from the very beginning that Cameron was never going to come back to his home. I just KNEW it. No one just goes on an awesome road trip with a paranoid dwarf and a yard gnome who believes he's a Norse god to save the world from dark matter from a different dimension and lives to tell the tale. It just doesn't happen. Anyways, throughout the whole book you could kind of guess what was going to happen. It was kind of nice though, because you could clearly tell it was all leading up to the climax where we would all be astounded or shocked or any of those things.  

One thing, though, really stood out to me. It just goes to show you, and I'm quoting the book right here, everything happens for a reason. In the very beginning of the book, way before Cameron even knew about Follow the Feather stuff or that he had Mad Cow disease, there was this little scene where he accidentally broke a snow globe of his father's. And from that point on, there were always snow globe references and cameos of snow globes. IT WAS SO WEIRD. I knew that of was a reference, but it was still fun finding out that it was all "connected". Thats one of the very best qualities of this book, that fact that you find little clues and scenes that were mentioned earlier in the story before Cameron went all mental on us. 

The other thing that I really liked about the book, is how you never REALLY get to know what happened, how it all ends. Once again throughout Cameron's whole trip, he sometimes sees images of him still in the hospital, like he never escaped. THIS DROVE ME CRAZY! Its so.......surreal! You never really know if he left the hospital or maybe he's just imagining it all or......I dunno! It just really makes you think. Maybe all his adventures with Gonzo (the dwarf) and Balder (the yard gnome) were all a figment of his imagination.

Overall, I really liked it. I especially liked that it made me think. Most books I enjoy, but they don't really make me wonder about what's happening in the plot so much. SO! Go read Going Bovine by Libba Bray and have fun reading it!!