Reviews tagging 'Outing'

More Than This by Patrick Ness

29 reviews

vthecreature's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark hopeful mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

This started out slow but great. The mystery, the tension, the surprise when

it suddenly turned out that there were other people in the world

. As an enjoyer of mystery and soft sci-fi I was a bit disappointed when certain truths were revealed. However after seeing another reviewer’s statement that this book is almost a decade old, I kinda forgave it for that.
I didn’t see some of the smaller plot twists coming such as

Gudmund sleeping with Monica or Seth choosing to give Owen to the escaped convict (that made me GASP)

but unfortunately I quickly predicted one of the biggest plot twists (

Owen being dead the whole time. There was just too much foreshadowing.

) 
The characters weren’t super complex,

the ending lacked resolution to MANY questions, but in a frustrating way rather than a mysterious one

, and there was a bit too much explicit explanation for what and why the characters were feeling. In conclusion, this was pretty good, great by 2013 standards, just not my cup of tea at the moment. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Physical abuse, Outing, Suicide, and Blood

Moderate: Confinement, Homophobia, Body horror, and Child death

Minor: Racism, Body shaming, Sexual content, and Bullying

Kidnapping

hollymileham's review against another edition

adventurous emotional slow-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

3.25

this was a reread and i remember adoring it when i was younger but it just had a lot of pacing issues and over used -'s too much for me this time around

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Outing, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, and Child death

Moderate: Infidelity

armontheroad's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

5.0

Patrick Ness never misses! I went into this not knowing anything, and I’m so glad I did. After figuring out this is not just a hard-hitting contemporary novel, my reading experience just got better and better. This was gut-wrenching and beautiful. I loved our main characters, the apocalyptic setting, and the ending. Everything about this was great! Wish I had known the content warnings beforehand because this book was graphic, although it was all handled well. I will say, it made me slightly uncomfortable the way one of our characters was written, however, it is not my voice you should be listening to when it comes to that rep. I highly implore you to go look at reviews from Black readers.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Outing, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Gore, Body horror, Grief, Fatphobia, Domestic abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Death, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Sexual content, Car accident, Child abuse, and Murder

thegr1mreader's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Suicidal thoughts

Moderate: Body shaming, Child death, Child abuse, Death, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Outing, and Bullying

Minor: Religious bigotry, Vomit, Addiction, and Alcoholism

grazzzo's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.25

this would be a perfect book if patrick ness did a tiny bit more research on the speech mannerisms of people who have learnt english as a second language

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

Moderate: Child abuse, Outing, and Kidnapping

eve_o's review against another edition

challenging mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

What just happened?? What? I don’t even know how to process this, I was on board until the middle. 
this had so much potential to be cool if it just got proofread a bit and maybe didn’t steal the plot twist. the whole ending i wanted to slap him for being so annoying. i audibly complained so often that my mom had to ask me to be quiet, but it was a fun, quick read, but check trigger warnings!

when they introduced the whole matrix thing i was so disappointed

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Suicide

Moderate: Blood, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Fatphobia, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Outing, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide attempt

Minor: Alcohol, Excrement, Infidelity, and Vomit

badmom's review against another edition

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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Violence

Moderate: Suicide and Physical abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Kidnapping, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Outing, and Grief

evilo_reads's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicide, Suicidal thoughts, Murder, Outing, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Injury/Injury detail, Homophobia, Grief, and Death

Moderate: Addiction and Child abuse

Minor: Domestic abuse

sophiemar's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Child abuse, Child death, and Outing