What Is The Theme Of Going Bovine By Libba Bray

I read the book “Going Bovine” by Libba Bray. I selected this book because I read another one of Libba Bray’s work which was a historical fiction/ fantasy series titled the Gemma Doyle trilogy. Since I liked those books, I decided why not try Going Bovine? I saw it on GoodReads and it got fantastic reviews. I also read the summery of the book to decide if it was serious or light hearted. Libba Bray had two different writing styles; either she’s really serious or she’s witty and funny like in Beauty Queens (which is about these pageant girls who get stuck on a “deserted” island after a plane crash and eventually the company who hosts the beauty pageant wants to kill them and start a war between America and the country ruled by Momo B. ChaCha;
Mad Cow disease or Creutzfeldt- Jacob’s disease, has no cure, which sucks. Cameron, in the beginning of the story was a lame teenage boy who did things with minimal effort. He was failing school and his family was messed up. The best day of his life was when he was five and almost died in Disney World, where he experienced his first NDE, near death experience. He’s almost drowned in the Small World ride, he liked this Utopia of dancing and singing children but just before he hit Iceland, he started getting scared, “I got the idea that this was the afterlife” (3, Going Bovine). He thought it was creepy that people were getting along with each other too well and he thought that the Small World Ride was where you went to die (he was thinking about the River Styx and Valhalla or Ovid). He saw a door behind an Eskimo igloo and jumped out to “save” his family. He eventually almost died and this was the catalyst which caused his family to slowly fall apart. While he’s in highschool he is suspects that his dad, who’s a professor, was having an affair with his TA. His mom is always scared of everything and his sister Jenna is being a perfectionist and is dating a lame religious guy named Chet who wants her to be “perfect”. Cameron has only a few so called friends named, Stoner Kevin, Stoner Kyle, and Part time Stoner Rachel. They’re normal routine
It’s one of my top favorite books and that’s saying a lot because I devour and eat books every day, yeah, you should speak to my past librarians, homeroom teachers, friends, and English teachers who I am closely acquainted with. The idea of the whole book was genius! I don’t know how a person could make up such an idea of a book, though it sort of reminded me of “Slaughter House 5 or the Children’s Crusade” and “Don Quixote” (which was obvious because the whole beginning talked about it) but you had to read Slaughter House 5 to actually figure it out. Going Bovine reminded me of Slaughter House 5 because of the same story of traveling between time – past, future, and present. At the end Cameron was jumping between different universes and times. He saw the future, the present, and the past; even though Cameron wasn’t kidnapped by aliens and locked up naked in a zoo, the whole theme of life and time stay consistent between both books. Billy, when he was inside the spaceship and the aliens needed to travel faster, the aliens played with time which caused Billy too go back to his experiences in World War II, when he was a college student; or when he was stuck inside a mental hospital reading sci-fi novels with the guy right next to him. it was like a time warp. Even though Going Bovine isn’t an anti war novel, I can still see connections between the two