Review: Game Changer

Game Changer by Neal Shusterman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It was supposed to be another football game for Ash, but after one fateful hit … his life isn’t the same.  It starts with small differences.  Stop signs are now blue and no one else remembers them being red.  He soon finds out that he was hit into another dimension and it doesn’t stop.  Each new dimension takes him further from his original world.  Some changes are world-changing and some only affected him.  Even though some things are wonderful, Ash wants to go back to his world before the changes.  Will Ash be able to control the shift and get what he wants?  What will he learn about himself and society as he travels through these alternate dimensions?

 

Game Changer is a stand-alone story that is hard to put into a single genre.  Readers will need to suspend disbelief as Ash travels through dimensions, but everything else falls firmly in a realistic fiction story.  Shusterman takes many hard topics and weaves them into this storyline and readers will grapple with their feelings as Ash grapples with his.  I was worried when the book opened with a sports scene, but this isn’t a sports book.  It is a fun yet serious read that happens to have sports included.

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