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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
adventurous
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I really enjoyed this book. "The Rest of Us Just Live Here" is hilarious at stages while also dealing with more serious topics like mental health. Ness is able to write in so many different styles that it can be hard not to think that you're picking up a familiar book (as seen in reviews about wanting this to be more like "When a Monster Calls"). What does seem to be a common thread in his books though is that he's able to bring you to a point of almost crying (maybe just me?) but then bring you back just enough to then continue the pattern. I find his characters authentic and relatable. Definitely worth a read!
Jared and the protagonist are BEST FRIENDS he helps him through rough times and he's a gentle large football player who's 1/4 cat god ?? (wtf honestly) and the main character's like my BEST FRIEND IS GAY BUT I'M STRAIGHT OK even though they've EXPERIMENTED in the past and this is all just bullshit why didn't they get together they had a true and real connection what kind of a book has Jared the cat god at the end be like AFTER GRADUATION I'M GOING TO ASCEND. IT'S BEEN NICE KNOWING YOU this book was silly
i was really nervous about buying this book! first because i read it with a reading buddy and had no time to buy it via amazon used ones so i had a permanent question, will i waste my money?
the answer is an absolute no!
whomever says this book is stupid clearly has no understanding of sarcasm and really dark humor as a whole which is the way i saw it and why i laughed so much throughout the reading of it.
I have to admit i thought the book would be about a non-special narrator telling us the story of the actual cool kid protagonist but it goes so much deeper than that. Ness makes fun of hipsters and pretty much every over the top romantic and cliché YA book from the past years, things that cracked me up.
All the YA refferences of books that i've read made it amazing, specially when they were happening in parallel to the story of our actual protagonists which are regular teenager with regular problems compared to hipsters with over the top calamities.
MAJESTIC AF!
the answer is an absolute no!
whomever says this book is stupid clearly has no understanding of sarcasm and really dark humor as a whole which is the way i saw it and why i laughed so much throughout the reading of it.
I have to admit i thought the book would be about a non-special narrator telling us the story of the actual cool kid protagonist but it goes so much deeper than that. Ness makes fun of hipsters and pretty much every over the top romantic and cliché YA book from the past years, things that cracked me up.
All the YA refferences of books that i've read made it amazing, specially when they were happening in parallel to the story of our actual protagonists which are regular teenager with regular problems compared to hipsters with over the top calamities.
MAJESTIC AF!
El mundo está en peligro. Otra vez. Esta vez son los Inmortales, cómo no, que quieren abrir un portal a nuestra dimensión. Pero los elegidos estarán una vez más ahí para evitarlo. Pero esta no es la historia de los elegidos, sino de los que se mueven entre bambalinas. Con una premisa muy interesante, engancha por la construcción de los personajes, su sentido del humor y su narrativa calmada pero ágil.
Reseña completa:
https://explorandomilmundos.blogspot.com/2020/03/los-demas-seguimos-aqui-patrick-ness.html
Reseña completa:
https://explorandomilmundos.blogspot.com/2020/03/los-demas-seguimos-aqui-patrick-ness.html
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
A re-read after first reading it in maybe... 2016?
The book was calling me, and it felt like a hug, weirdly. An extra .25 stars because I think it's stayed relevant for young adults and to me, 10 years later, that's pretty impressive.
Edit: I JUST REMEMBERED THE AGE GAP. KNOCKING THE RATING BACK DOWN TO 4 STARS. GET OUT, LOSERS, NO ONE'S SELLING ME ON AN AGE GAP. EVER.
The book was calling me, and it felt like a hug, weirdly. An extra .25 stars because I think it's stayed relevant for young adults and to me, 10 years later, that's pretty impressive.
Edit: I JUST REMEMBERED THE AGE GAP. KNOCKING THE RATING BACK DOWN TO 4 STARS. GET OUT, LOSERS, NO ONE'S SELLING ME ON AN AGE GAP. EVER.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Eating disorder, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders
Moderate: Alcoholism, Dementia
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I bet if you sent Ness out into the woods with a penny, a match, a hamster wheel, and a crumpled page from a 1988 telephone book, he'd come back in a week with a beautifully written book.
His words affect me. I'm always smitten.
Even when he is writing YA, I don't feel like I'm an adult reading about teens (even though that is more or less exactly what I am doing).
You know how there are those things in life you'd like to be a fly on the wall for? I'd like to be a fly on his brain (gross but true).
The cover says, "Sometimes you have to find the extraordinary in the ordinary."
There are small blurbs at the start of each chapter about extraordinary characters (referenced as "indie kids" by others) behind the scenes with powers that defend another realm. These blurbs are the high drama, high action, fast paced stories we've come to love and expect in our supernatural YA fiction. Our main characters, however, are (mostly) the ordinary kids. The ones that are their own little group in the school and not front and center. A group I could identify with. A group that that deals with relationships (small focus), friendship (large focus), anxiety, eating disorders, sexual orientation, parents (alcoholic, absent, political, religious), fear of the future, and being one-quarter God (I said mostly ordinary). I loved these characters. I even loved the main character, Mikey, who is obsessive, insecure, and a little bit whiny. He is a near reflection of myself, and I'm not even ashamed to admit it!
I was never bored, and I didn't find myself at a near gagging point the way I do when I read other popular YA authors (think John Green and the gang).
I love the humor.
Satchel goes into hiding at an abandoned drive-in with fellow indie kids Finn, Dylan, Finn, Finn, Lincoln, Archie, Wisconsin, Finn, Aquamarine, and Finn...
I love the insight.
Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But Michael, you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it.
(NAILED IT.)
Beautiful Ness as always.
Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too.
**Note about the author's note at the end: How cool is it that Ness auctioned off the change to have the winner's name in the book? Almost as cool as the name Henna Silvennoinen, which I had been admiring the whole way through.
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Expected publication: August 27th 2015
In the meantime, I'm going to write a letter. Something like:
Dear (Terrible, Horrible, Unreasonable) Release Date,
Sincerely-ish,
Natalie
His words affect me. I'm always smitten.
Even when he is writing YA, I don't feel like I'm an adult reading about teens (even though that is more or less exactly what I am doing).
You know how there are those things in life you'd like to be a fly on the wall for? I'd like to be a fly on his brain (gross but true).
The cover says, "Sometimes you have to find the extraordinary in the ordinary."
There are small blurbs at the start of each chapter about extraordinary characters (referenced as "indie kids" by others) behind the scenes with powers that defend another realm. These blurbs are the high drama, high action, fast paced stories we've come to love and expect in our supernatural YA fiction. Our main characters, however, are (mostly) the ordinary kids. The ones that are their own little group in the school and not front and center. A group I could identify with. A group that that deals with relationships (small focus), friendship (large focus), anxiety, eating disorders, sexual orientation, parents (alcoholic, absent, political, religious), fear of the future, and being one-quarter God (I said mostly ordinary). I loved these characters. I even loved the main character, Mikey, who is obsessive, insecure, and a little bit whiny. He is a near reflection of myself, and I'm not even ashamed to admit it!
I was never bored, and I didn't find myself at a near gagging point the way I do when I read other popular YA authors (think John Green and the gang).
I love the humor.
Satchel goes into hiding at an abandoned drive-in with fellow indie kids Finn, Dylan, Finn, Finn, Lincoln, Archie, Wisconsin, Finn, Aquamarine, and Finn...
I love the insight.
Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But Michael, you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it.
(NAILED IT.)
Beautiful Ness as always.
Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too.
**Note about the author's note at the end: How cool is it that Ness auctioned off the change to have the winner's name in the book? Almost as cool as the name Henna Silvennoinen, which I had been admiring the whole way through.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Expected publication: August 27th 2015
In the meantime, I'm going to write a letter. Something like:
Dear (Terrible, Horrible, Unreasonable) Release Date,
Sincerely-ish,
Natalie