A pleasant enough read, but I honestly don't see why this book is getting so much praise. It reads like a cross between The Curious Incident of the Dog In Night Time with an Adrian Mole book, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it's really nothing special at all, there's certainly not much originality. 
 It is written in a first person, slightly autistic style which is interesting at first, amusing in parts, but also somewhat irritating. If you can get over that, the first few chapters are highly promising, but I did find myself wondering what the relevance was of Alex's epilepsy having been brought on by the unlikely circumstances of being hit by a meteor fragment. 
 Without giving too much away, at a certain point in the book, you realise how the story is going to pan out, and that's exactly what happens. Towards the end, I found my interest waning, and the last few chapters were formulaic stuff. 
 Pleasant enough to read, as I said, but not worthy of the praise which has been lavished upon it.