Rating: 4/5
This book follows the life of an adolescent suffering from Asperger syndrome. He is the narrator and his name is Christopher John Francis Boone. And he knows all the prime numbers up to 7,057. He takes the world entirely literally, working through his day in logical baby steps, and must follow a strict routine or he becomes very distressed and throws fits. He can’t stand the colours yellow and brown, especially when together, and won’t allow anyone to touch him—even his parents.
Christopher begins the book by describing what happened when he saw the dog. The dog in his neighbour’s front yard with the garden fork sticking out of it, that is. He looks at the fork and eventually comes to the conclusion that the dog is dead.
The owner of the dog—Christopher’s neighbour Mrs Shears—comes out of her house and immediately rings the police, having found Christopher on the crime scene and assuming that he was the one who murdered her poodle. There is a bit of a situation involving a prison cell and an angry father, and then Christopher is eventually allowed to come home. That is when he decides to start an official investigation as to who murdered Wellington the poodle.
Little does he know that this investigation is to turn his life completely around. He will find out who killed Wellington, and he won’t like it.
This book was very interesting. It explored some concepts such as whether you should always tell the truth, and when it is best to forgive and forget and when to take revenge.