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More Than This by Patrick Ness

10 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

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

sleepykatz's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death

Moderate: Suicide, Cursing, and Child abuse

Minor: Fatphobia, Child death, Homophobia, Body shaming, and Murder

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

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

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

rayne_1906's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective 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? Yes

4.75

3 hours - I read this book for the first time years ago, and I absolutely loved it. And now, rereading it, I still loved it. I love the premise, I love the metaphors, I love the characters. I believe this was the book that got me into reading Ness' works actually. My only issue is the ending feels a little too abrupt compared to the rest of the book. I would have loved just one extra scene or chapter, even just repeating the opening scene again, although I understand that the open-ending is there for a purpose. I love that this book doesn't tell you what is real and what is not, what is metaphor and what is happening, I just love this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Child death, Death, and Suicide

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, and Murder

Minor: Alcohol, Fatphobia, Sexism, and Vomit

Drowning

aviery's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Body horror, Child death, Death, Grief, Gore, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Child abuse, Cursing, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Physical abuse

Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, Cursing, Drug use, and Fatphobia

plumpaperbacks's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

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

4.0

This is undoubtedly one of the slowest, most confusing books I’ve ever read. That being said, I like what Ness did with this novel. He created complex characters and an intriguing world where literally nothing is as it seems. You never know exactly what’s going on, and for every answer you get, there are at least five new questions.

While the intrigue was maintained, I won’t lie: sometimes, the slow pacing was off-putting. However, the desire to know what the fudge was happening paired with the extremely short chapters kept me reading. I also quite liked Regine and Tomasz.

Thank you, Erika, for pushing me to read this for the last couple of years. I’m glad I finally did. More Than This is better than the Chaos Walking trilogy, even if half the time, I had no clue what was real and I never knew what to expect. Now I can recommend it alongside you. It’s a twisted story, but one that’s worth the read.

Representation

• queer protagonist and side character in a m/m relationship (occurs prior to the story and in flashbacks)
• Black fat side character

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Child abuse, Child death, Physical abuse, Domestic abuse, and Gore

Moderate: Alcoholism, Grief, Kidnapping, Body shaming, Gun violence, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, and Blood

Minor: Bullying, Fatphobia, and Sexual violence