Reviews with content warning for Suicide attempt - More Than This

“Are you serious? Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.” - Regine

🧠 My thoughts
I have never rated any YA book 5 stars, but here I am doing so. It’s not because YA books are not good but for me, most of them don’t hit the right spot and have annoying dialogues. This book was just a random pick but I was so glad I got to read it.

Don’t get me wrong, this book wasn’t perfect but it raised so many good questions that non-YA books can’t even do it this well. Reading this book felt like watching a movie fleshing out in front of my eyes. What is real and what is not? Are we sure that the world we are living in is perfect? If not, would we ever find another perfect world where there would be no bad things? Just like how we are trying to find another better planet to live on if Earth went down or building Metaverse to escape the harsh and sad reality? It was very heartbreaking to read about all of the trauma that the characters have to go through while being so young. Was that the reason why they sound more mature than they should be?

The storyline was pretty strong for a sci-fi book that was meant to confuse the audience. Most of the things were “kind of explained” at the end.

For being such a great book, it still has drawbacks of course. The pace of the part 1 was sometimes really slow for me. I understood the author’s idea but I thought it would still be great if it was cut in half. Part 2 pacing was really good but part 3 was again a bit slower than I expected.

👍 What I like

Strong storyline
Deeply meaningful conversations and philosophies
World-building is very trustable
Sci-fi parts were creative

👎 What I don't like

Can be very slow in some parts
I wish that the sci-fi parts could be delved deeper into

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense 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

3.75

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arlorees's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny inspiring 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? Yes

4.5

I struggled with the first 70 or so pages feeling slow or like not much was happening, but when the first of many plot twists occurred I couldn't put it down. Give it a chance.

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