Going Bovine Review

Author: Libba Bray

Release Date: September 22, 2009

Pages: 380

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Most Appropriate For Ages: 14+
Where I Got It: For review

Can Cameron find what he’s looking for? All 16-year-old Cameron wants is to get through high school—and life in general—with a minimum of effort. It’s not a lot to ask. But that’s before he’s given some bad news: he’s sick and he’s going to die. Which totally sucks. Hope arrives in the winged form of Dulcie, a loopy punk angel/possible hallucination with a bad sugar habit. She tells Cam there is a cure—if he’s willing to go in search of it. With the help of a death-obsessed, video-gaming dwarf and a yard gnome, Cam sets off on the mother of all road trips through a twisted America into the heart of what matters most.
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You know that a book is going to be funny when you begin laughing somewhere in the first six pages. Going Bovine was definitely that type of book.

The plot was original, hilarious, and weird. It did seem to slow down a lot at some points, though. It was mostly a realistic fiction, but it definitely had a good amount of fantasy elements thrown in. Due to Cameron's mad cow disease, you're never really sure what's real, and what isn't. But as long as you don't dwell on that, I think you'll probably enjoying Going Bovine.

You meet a lot of characters throughout Going Bovine, each one unique and interesting. The main characters all grow a lot. Cameron starts out selfish, boring, and friend-less, and those are three terms that couldn't describe him by the end of his epic journey. My favorite character was definitely Balder, the yard gnome/viking god. He was hilarious! And Dulcie was great too. The book was full of awesome characters.

The writing was, you know, it was Libba Bray's writing. Brilliant, beautiful, and amazing. She tells a great story and is a great writer.

The ending didn't live up to my expectations that the book had set. It ended very abruptly and didn't satisfy me. Overall, though, a good read. Definitely one to check out!

Teaser Tuesday (February 9)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme, hosted by MizB of Should

Be Reading.

Anyone can play along, do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Here's mine:

"The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World.
I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage."-page 1 of Going Bovine by Libba Bray