![]() ![]() You will have to do that a lot while reading this. In the second part things changes, and you might have to reconsider your theories on what’s going on. I found it intense, engaging, and quite terrifying in its utter desolation. More Than This is split into 4 parts and while the first part might come across as slow to some, that first part was my favorite. It keeps you scratching your head and asking yourself “how?” “why?” I personally love that about books, as I’ve previously said in my review of The Knife of Never Letting Go, also by Patrick Ness. ![]() I was hooked from the very beginning on both the plot and the writing. Did he actually die? And if he did, why and how is he here? Is he in hell? Heaven? Or somewhere else entirely? And why was Seth in the ocean in the first place? I knew nothing more than that and I’d have been a bit angry if I did, because the thing that makes this book so good and so exciting is not knowing what the hell is going on. You shouldn’t go into this book knowing anything more about it than that. And then he wakes up, bruised and thirsty but seemingly alive. Seth is a 16 year old boy and he drowns in the ocean. That’s not a spoiler because that’s there in the very first sentence. This book starts with the main character drowning. Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Post-Apocalyptic, LGBTQIA ![]()
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