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More Than This by Patrick Ness

31 reviews

beetlemortis's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense slow-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Suicide, Physical abuse, Grief, and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Blood, Outing, Physical abuse, and Kidnapping

Minor: Homophobia, Murder, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, and Fatphobia

bunny_bee_'s review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Suicide, Homophobia, Bullying, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Death, Child death, and Blood

miagw962's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

"Life does not have to go how you think it will," Tomasz says. "Not even when you are very sure what is going to happen."

Let me start by saying I love love love Patrick Ness - I love him and I love his books so much. Loved the Chaos Walking series and loved his standalone novels even more. I had heard really good things about this book, moreso than the other ones he's done so I was super pumped. And yes, it was pretty cute and interesting and easy to read and well-written. It did not, however, hit as hard as the rest of his novels have for me. It might've had something to do with the eventual

Matrix-like

premise or the slight disconnect I felt towards the main character. Suffice to say, I'm a little disappointed just because I think this book in particular is regarded as Patrick's best but I just personally prefer Release and The Rest of Us Just Live Here a lot more (and of course A Monster Calls). This is not a bad book by any means, I actually really enjoyed it. I think it has the capacity to teach young people about life and relationships. But I also think his other books do that better. Also confused why so many people were like 'omg what a crazy premise, this book completely changed my perspective on everything' like GUYS the premise is so derivative of the aforementioned cultural phenomenon-blockbuster sci-fi movie mentioned in the spoiler tag. Anyway, just a teensy bit disappointed in this one from Patrick but yeah, obviously still liked it. I hold him to a very high standard and that's not his fault!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Blood, Child death, Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Grief, Kidnapping, and Suicide

bennybooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book made my life significantly worse. This man should never be allowed to write. There’s a pain in my chest that won’t go away. You caused it. Get away from me.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Blood, Child death, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic friendship, Suicide attempt, Kidnapping, Death, Vomit, Domestic abuse, and Gore

me_like_book's review against another edition

challenging hopeful inspiring mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is the book I wish I could read spoiler-free again.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child abuse, Kidnapping, and Toxic friendship

scout_jones's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Trafficking, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Outing, Child abuse, Abandonment, Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Kidnapping, Grief, Domestic abuse, Death, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Xenophobia

talonsontypewriters's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, Child abuse, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Vomit, Murder, and Gore

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Alcoholism, Outing, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Grief, Fatphobia, Car accident, Alcohol, Fire/Fire injury, and Homophobia

Minor: Infidelity, Racism, Bullying, Xenophobia, Sexism, Sexual content, Misogyny, Ableism, and Excrement

Graphic drowning and unreality. Attack by animal. Smoking, underage drinking. Joke about teacher/student relationship, description of character as "concentration camp guard."

graciejames's review against another edition

adventurous emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse and Kidnapping

no_this_is_patrick's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

Absolutely  loved the book and the only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because the ending wasn't particularly satisfactory  . Nevertheless it was a captivating read and the concept was really unique , had my jaw-dropping numerous times . I love how Patrick Ness wrote a science-fiction novel while also making it an emotional roller coaster . All in all I would definitely recommend this book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Homophobia, Kidnapping, and Child abuse

Minor: Fatphobia

phoehems's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Ok so the beginning was very interesting. Sometimes a bit repetitive, but intriguing.

There was no one for Seth to interact with for a big chunk of the beginning. And that was interesting.

The flashbacks/dreams were also very well written. 
Regine and Tomasz are amazing. They are deep interesting characters. Regine's personality keeps you guessing about her background. Tomasz is just so endearing. All the characters have tragic backstories.

This book is literally the Matrix. On a basic level, the Driver is the robots etc, 'real life' is Zion, Regine and Seth... Trinity and Neo? Does that make Tomasz Morpheus? Anyway, there's nothing in this story that I didn't 'know' from the Matrix. Yet somehow I still didn't know what was going to happen next. Well written!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Gore, Kidnapping, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Child abuse, Death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Vomit, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Physical abuse, Rape, Body shaming, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Alcoholism