Doppelganger by Michael Parker
First time author Michael Parker has certainly set a high standard with this scifi adventure set in a horrific future.
Andrew is a normal kid, in a normal life. He has a job at the local convenience store, goes to school, shares secrets with friends and everything. But then he gets sucked into an alternative reality where the city has been destroyed and life is in the control of vicious gangs. Soon he discovers that what happens in the alternative world has an impact on his ‘normal’ life and friends. As a result he gets caught up in a desperate struggle to protect ‘his’ world.
As I read this book I thought it was too dark and too complex for most students. However, as I am writing this review I am amazed by the number of kids passing and commenting ‘I read that book, it was really good.’ So I hereby reconsider. There is obviously enough adventure to keep older boys involved and the strangeness of the alternative universe is not too strange.
