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More Than This by Patrick Ness Patrick Ness is quickly becoming my favorite YA author. I started by reading A Monster Calls and cried my eyes out. Then it was an entirely different book in The Knife of Never Letting Go, with all its action and adventure. Now this. More Than This. Aptly titled. And again, I loved it. It's certainly not in my top ten books of all time, but I was riveted for most of the novel. Click the link below to see Patrick Ness discuss this book:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mIIHTz_nZDA The opening pages of this book see a boy drowning - dying in a cold and unforgiving ocean, alone and afraid. Then Seth wakes up. Seth wakes up in a dusty, used up, expired world unsure of why or how he got there. A world of questions, fear, loneliness, and memories. Every time he sleeps, he "dreams" of the life he had before his death, but the dreams are so vivid they seem to be more than memories. When he wakes up, he is again immersed in the misery and loneliness of this new place. Where is he? Is this hell? As time and plot progress, the reader comes to realize there are deeper questions involved here - not just "What is this place?", but so many questions about the depth and meaning of the lives we live. ”Whatever happened to you down there, whatever the world looks like now, that’s not how it always looks. That’s not how it’s always going to look. There’s more. There’s always more.” The questions, mystery, and action push this story along. Patrick Ness has a magical way of telling us everything and nothing all at once. Infuriating really! In the end, you will have to decide what is real, and if there is More Than This.
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