Review: The Many Worlds of Albie Bright

The Many Worlds of Albie Bright by Christopher Edge
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Albie Bright is the child of brilliant scientists. He's even named after two brilliant scientists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. His mom is a quantum physicist, and his dad is a TV scientist (think a combination of Bill Nye and Neil DeGrasse Tyson). His mom has recently died of cancer and Albie misses her terribly. His dad deals with this by travelling even more and this leaves Albie mostly alone. One aspect of his mom's work was discovering whether there might be "parallel universes". Albie is sure there must be AND he's sure he can find his mom in one of them. All he needs is a cardboard box, his mom's laptop, and a banana. (That's right, a banana!)

I loved all the science in this book. I loved seeing how we might be the same, yet different in other situations. The first third of the book was very slow. It mostly consisted of Albie being sad. I almost quit this book, but once I got past the first third of the book, I was rewarded with a gem of a read.

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