What starts off as a seemingly lighthearted tale of an autistic boy solving a mystery like Sherlock Holmes would, quickly snowballs into more deep and personal subjects. Family relations and the way children see them as well as react to them are very important, but there is also the theme of pushing through your fear for a cause, and so many more. The care taken to create and give this character's thoughts and actions justice shows us that the author, Mark Haddon, is very knowledgeable about autism. This is one of those characters that in just 226 pages made me feel so much empathy for them, and so much heartbreak when they did.

This was an absolutely wonderful read, a new favorite of mine, and I would highly recommend it.