This year I thought about taking part in the Booktube-a-thon marathon, because it seems like a fun experience and a way to meet new bookworms. Unfortunately, I was not able to finish all the challenges, but I had the opportunity to read a fantastic novel: Everybody sees the ants by A. S. King. I was impressed and completely mesmerized by Lucky’s story.
Everybody sees the ants is the story of Lucky Linderman, who has been bullied almost all of his life by Nader McMillan, but Lucky has a way of escaping the real word: dreaming. During his dreams he goes to visit hid grandfather in the jungles of Laos, where his grandad was a war prisoner. In those jungles Lucky feels like he can be a hero and save his grandad, he can look the way he wants to look and he stands up for himself. Lucky’s father is somehow there, but at the same time it feels like he is missing and his mother is swimming most of the time. Lucky sees his dad as a turtle and his mom is a squid. It is a different thing to imagine your parents as being sea creatures and once you read the boom you will get the meaning behind those associations. Lucky got into problems after he decided to make a questionnaire about the way people would like to commit suicide
There were times when I was thinking that maybe Lucky has metal problems, but that’s what makes this novel even more interesting because you cannot tell for sure if that’s true or not. You can imagine whatever you want, cause it is never stated if those are just dreams. Moreover, there are times when you question if the story can be read as a magic-realism novel and it can totally be that, but the author chose to let the reader decide for himself/herself how to lecture it that is simply wonderful. The other characters were so different from one another. There is his aunt who is obese and cannot cook ( frozen meals are the best), she might also be a little addicted, but I’m going to let you discover what she is addicted to. His uncle seems like a great guy at first, that’s until Lucky discover his secret, a secret that made him understand his aunt better. Then there is the “Ninja-girl”, a 17 year old girl with a long and straight hair and her crazy friends.
This is the story of a young boy who realises that in the end everyone has his/her own problems and no one is perfect, not even those who seem like they have the whole future planned ahead or those you look up to. They might even have bigger problems than you can ever imagine.
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