I like this book so much! Gave me the thrills of I, Robot plus The Terminator 2 plus The Matrix plus The X-Men vibes throughout the 4 parts fo the book!The dystopian feels got so real! And wow. I did check the publication year because I really wanted to believe this book didn't get published that many years ago (of course, it did!). But hell yes, this book talks real sht. ***Calm down, reader. Calm down****Warnings for domestic violence, self-harm, suicidal tendencies, death and grief, homophobi...

Q: Know yourself and go in swinging... (c) And the book does exactly that.Speculative fiction cross dystopian cross teenage drama at its best.Q:A book... It's a world all on its own, too. ... A world made of words... where you live for a while. ...And then it's over... (c)Q:People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise...

Oh, it's Ness review-writing time?Here's the thing with reviewing Patrick Ness books: I don't want you to read reviews of Patrick Ness books. I want to Panda slap your laptop out of your hand before allowing you to read any details about Patrick Ness books. I want you to skip GO, do not collect $200 dollars and JUST FREAKING READ THEM ALREADY. Save the review browsing for after.Which might be a bit scandalous to say as a book blogger (goodbye page views!) but: 1) I don't want you to get spoiled

this book treated me like a dog treats a ragdoll. and i have no idea where to begin. patrick ness has written a game-changer that i'm not even really sure how to approach. this is a YA novel. i've lost half of you book snobs right there. but i think that is my point. YA has been breaking free of its presumed confines for years. when i was a teen, YA novels were largely disposable, empty-calorie entertainment trifles meant to keep us off the streets, off drugs, and not full of babies. they were e...

A book that literally starts with the main character dying and waking up... that's how you make me pick up your book.More Than This is a YA coming of age book with some LGBTQ+ representation that follow the main character as he struggles to figure out if there's more after life.Very interesting concept, the book will keep you on your toes and the writing will keep you engage.(4.5) Totally recommend!

I'm not sure what I was expecting that to be, but it was not that....in the best way possible.I loved the characters and the plot and the world......but I don't really want to say much about them. I'm of the opinion of most everyone else that you should go in knowing as little as possible about this book!

I like how I still don't know what happened. And I like how that was the point.

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huh. what an interestingly bizarre story. ness’ ‘chaos walking’ trilogy is one of my favourite series ever, so i was very eager to finally read some of his other works - but this was not what i was expecting. it was a little strange, a little confusing, but somewhat intriguing. this rating probably deserves to be higher, but i just dont think i was in the right mindset for something that was so… out there. and i think i need to learn how to set a book aside when that happens and pick it up when

Um...er...huh.Well.----------------Okay, so, I totally don't know what to make of Patrick Ness at this point. I hated The Knife of Never Letting Go (couldn't even finish it), and absolutely loved A Monster Calls. This? Like I said.I think the concept is pretty interesting up to a point. And I liked the characters up to a point. And the various mysteries kept me interested up to a point. And, okay, the very very end is really good. I get what Ness is saying here (I think?), but I wish this book w...

This is a genius idea for a book. It's hard to talk about because it's great going into without knowing much, but I will say I really enjoyed this. From the gay main character to the addicting premise, it was fabulous. I just found myself not really able to connect to the characters, and the ending was a bit too ambiguous for me. But I highly recommend this!

4.5 stars Terrific blend of I Am Legend + Twilight Zone + The Matrix. I don't love the implied cautionary tale re: technology, but I do love the story structure, characters, and writing. Thomasz has particularly great speech patterns and dialogue, and the story never feels cliche or boring--no small feat when the first 30% consists almost entirely of Seth on his own. Best read knowing as little about it as possible.

Look. Here's the thing. I am not generous with my five star ratings. Five star readings must have shocked me or blown my mind or done something really original or otherwise awesome to get me to throw that final star in their direction. So a four star rating is, for me, really really good. I want you to remember that and realise how good this book is when I say I just expected something more from Ness. Let's make a joke about it: I just expected more than this. Ha. And maybe it's because I'm

Is this book really going to break my heart? because I have EYES and I'm not afraid to CRY

After reading:GOD DAMN IT PATRICK NESS. GOD. DAMN. ITTTTTTTT.Well. I guess it's no secret that I'm obsessed with Patrick Ness's work and I worship the ground he walks on and yada yada. I anticipated this book for a long time and then put off reading it forever because ... I don't know, I guess I was nervous that it wouldn't live up to my expectations.But I shouldn't have doubted, because this book was fantastic. Very emotional, intense, vivid, and engaging, and with a great cast of characters. T...

"People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true. We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy." This is a book about hope. More Than This is about existentialism and is stuffed with insane plot twists. Yes, true. But more importantly, this book tells us there's always hope, as long as we hold on, as

THIS BOOK WILL SCREW WITH YOUR HEAD. (In a good way!)A boy drowns, alone, in a cold turbulent ocean, waves smashing him into the unforgiving rocks. He succumbs to broken bones, lack of oxygen, and hypothermia... and dies......Then he wakes up. WAIT. What!??Seth finds himself completely naked, dirty, thirsty, lying on a deserted sidewalk in a completely desolate, empty city. Not another soul in sight.Ummm...... WHERE is he? What IS this abandoned place?? Is he...... DEAD??? What is happening????T...

While I try to avoid spoilers in my reviews, my overall impression of this book may this time be a spoiler in itself, so proceed with caution!This is a fairly mind warping dystopian mystery left open to so much interpretation after 470 pages, it's kind of amazing. I mean, after that many pages you would think you have some pretty good idea about what is going on. But, instead, each page adds more to the mystery. This book was very easy to be intrigued by. The writing is very good and the trouble...

um, hi, no one talks about this and it pisses me off. Want a book that tackles topics such as suicide, mental illness, sexuality and homophobia in respectful and realistic ways??? Do you also want entertainment, to die for characters, political intrigue and all that sci-fi goodness?? Read this book. Stop what you're doing and read this book. It might have been lost in the surplus of new releases over the past few years but it still rings so true, and I will never not recommend this book to every...

This is the first book by Patrick Ness that I've read. Judging by some of the other one-star reviews on Goodreads written by fans of his other books (particularly the Chaos Walking trilogy), More Than This may not be a very good representation of his work. Unfortunately, it was my first exposure to the author, and it didn't make a very good first impression. In fact, it made an awful one.The synopsis of this book makes it sound like it might be some sort of philosophically deep psychological thr...