The+Last+Universe

**The Last Universe** by William Sleator The story is told through a girl named Susan who is fourteen years old. She has a brother who has an unknown illness which makes him weak and is forced to use a wheelchair. After becoming ill Gary starts to read about gardening and about quantum physics. Their Great Uncle Arthur who built the house and the “quantum garden” won the Lebon Prize for quantum physics. After Gary gets sick a lot of weird things start to happen like when Susan and Gary go to the lake there are lotus in the lake. Gary asks her the pick one for him because he said “It would make him stronger”. After getting the flower they when home and when they got out from the path that lead to the lake they were in the rose field which had no path on it at all. They when back around and ended up where the path normally leads. They when home and during the night there was a screeching noise from where Gary slept. There were over a hundred birds in the room trying to get out. But as it turned out it was just one “quantum bird” and it “leaked” out from the room. When this happened Gary asked Susan to take him back to lake. When they got to the lake their gardener, Luke was at the lake with his cat Sro-dee and there were even more and bigger lotus this time. On the way back instead of ending up on the path it ended up in the valley. After this Susan invites her friend Lisa over. Lisa thinks the garden was cool. One day Lisa, Susan, and Gary when to the lake together and inside of taking them to the lake it took them to a maze. As Susan and gray went into the maze everything turned in to a “probability cloud” and they when back. When they got back the vase witch the lotus was in changed and Gray was strong. Gary said the maze made him strong so they when back into the maze over and over again getting deeper each time. As it turns out they were not exiting in the same place each time each time they went out of the maze it took them to a different universe. Each time they go into a new universe they and everyone they know changed. In the end Gary is better but Susan now is sick but not as bad.

Review: I found this book very interesting. When I first started to read it was not the great but as the story picked up there were answers need to be solved and the story kept asking you what happens next? This could be called a horror book because it makes you fear the unknown and the thought of the unthinkable happening. Ever page had something to make you think about the uncertain dangers that lied ahead. This book was an enjoyable to me and was a change from books I would probably read. So if you are looking for a suspenseful book this it.