I assumed Patrick Ness had written many, many YA books (because he’s really good at it) but I am so sad to find out that I’m terribly wrong — this is the last of his published works that I hadn’t read, and I’ve now read it. So cry a little tear for me. “You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there’s always more than this. There’s always something you don’t know.” More Than This is one of those books where the main character […]
Tears and goosebumps in under 200 pages
This book is creepy and sad in equal turns, and I read through the whole thing without putting it down once. I was pretty much a wreck by the end. “There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.” Some neat backstory on this one: an author named Siobhan Dowd came up with the original concept, and discussed it with Patrick Ness. When her death prevented completion of the project, Ness took the idea […]
Who would want to be the chosen one anyway?
My recommendation for The Rest of Us Just Live Here also came from that “awesome first lines” list (which must have been YA focused, now that I think of it). I’ve only ever read Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking series, which I loved up until the ending. But I went with this one based on its great premise, and I’m happy to say it delivered! “CHAPTER THE FIRST, in which the Messenger of the Immortals arrives in a surprising shape, looking for a permanent Vessell; and after being chased by […]
I really hated these bitches
So I read Girls on Fire immediately after the lovely summer romance of Aristotle & Dante, and while listening to the audiobook of The Rest of Us Just Live Here (which I’m about to review, but let me just say here that it featured some of my favorite YA characters/relationships EVER). So maybe those warm and fuzzy feelings just accentuated the awfulness of the girls in this novel. But really — I totally wanted to actually set these bitches on fire. “I took up space. I was a collection […]