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3.68 AVERAGE
3.68 AVERAGE
emotional
reflective
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
Very interesting premise, to use the big heroic story as background to tell a smaller human story. I quite enjoyed this book, it's very teenage but still about fundamental human issues like relationships and getting out of your own way. I think it's probably a more interesting read if you're closer to the ages of the protagonists, but I did enjoy the book.
Read it for Audrey, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Super enjoyed Jared and pretty much everything.
Recommend to: Emily B.
Recommend to: Emily B.
I really enjoyed the concept of this book. I loved the focus on the B plot and the consequences on the world around rather than in the action. There were some character developments that really didn’t make sense to me (especially the mom’s random acts of kindness when we were set up to really not like her, and she clearly hasn’t changed) and a lot that was never really confirmed and just left open. I’m not well educated on OCD, but this is the first story I’ve read that touched on that, which I liked as I’ve never seen this represented in media before. The pacing was super fast, but I’m kind of glad about that. Without spoiling anything, I also liked the decision made at the end by Mike. It felt like a good message.
Ness is a beautifully honest writer. This book confirmed I’m not alone with many of my fears - being the safest person alive and still having bad things happen around you, feeling you’re the least needed person in your circle. It’s truthful and hard hitting, it’s weird and hopeful, and I enjoyed every moment of it.
Wow that was really boring and weird.
The Rest of Us Just Live Here is about a group of teenagers who aren't the chosen ones. They live in a world where there are heroes and evil but they are just the rest. So they live their lives trying to get by with all the regular drama, mental health issues, and romance.
I think the idea of this book is actually kind of interesting. There are little parts that show what epic stuff is going on with the heroes all while normal people just live their lives having to live in a world where they just get in the way of some epic fight. So in theory, yes but in reality and actually reading that? No. It was just so bizarre and things were never really explained that well because they just weren't important. A lot of the time this was just a basic mental health contemporary, and not even a good one. It was so boring too. Literally just a bunch of people hanging around and not doing anything.
Ugh, when you can tell the author is a man. Gross dude, I don't need to hear about the (of course) male MC jerking off to how he FiNaLlY got to have sex!!!!! with his dReAm grill!!!! She wasn't even an actual character but her only personality was her romance with him. And of course that lackluster ass romance took up most of the story, minus shoving in some OCD issues with the MC and an eating disorder for his sister.
This book was super short and yet it still wasted my time.
The Rest of Us Just Live Here is about a group of teenagers who aren't the chosen ones. They live in a world where there are heroes and evil but they are just the rest. So they live their lives trying to get by with all the regular drama, mental health issues, and romance.
I think the idea of this book is actually kind of interesting. There are little parts that show what epic stuff is going on with the heroes all while normal people just live their lives having to live in a world where they just get in the way of some epic fight. So in theory, yes but in reality and actually reading that? No. It was just so bizarre and things were never really explained that well because they just weren't important. A lot of the time this was just a basic mental health contemporary, and not even a good one. It was so boring too. Literally just a bunch of people hanging around and not doing anything.
Ugh, when you can tell the author is a man. Gross dude, I don't need to hear about the (of course) male MC jerking off to how he FiNaLlY got to have sex!!!!! with his dReAm grill!!!! She wasn't even an actual character but her only personality was her romance with him. And of course that lackluster ass romance took up most of the story, minus shoving in some OCD issues with the MC and an eating disorder for his sister.
This book was super short and yet it still wasted my time.
adventurous
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
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 was very disappointed in this book, the second Ness book that I have not liked. He tries to blend fantasy-scifi with realistic fiction, and it just didn't work for me. He includes a second parallel parable-like story as a sort of "foreword" to each chapter, and I think somehow I was supposed to connect it to the characters in the main novel, but it really just distracted me.
This is a coming of age story, and I felt that what Ness included for that theme was really good, but then totally messed up by the blue light/alien creature factor in the plot. If he had played it straight without any of the theatrics, it could have been a great story.
So, More Than This was incomprehensible to me, and The Rest of Us Just Live Here was just a mismatched blend of stories. I'll stick with Ness' Chaos Walking trilogy, which was BRILLIANT, and A Monster Calls.
This is a coming of age story, and I felt that what Ness included for that theme was really good, but then totally messed up by the blue light/alien creature factor in the plot. If he had played it straight without any of the theatrics, it could have been a great story.
So, More Than This was incomprehensible to me, and The Rest of Us Just Live Here was just a mismatched blend of stories. I'll stick with Ness' Chaos Walking trilogy, which was BRILLIANT, and A Monster Calls.