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More Than This by Patrick Ness

37 reviews

entanglednovels's review against another edition

emotional funny 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? It's complicated

4.0

Wow. What an ending. This is actually the first Patrick Ness book I've read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm glad I went into this not knowing a lot. Definitely an oldie but a goodie. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, and Gore

Moderate: Death of parent, Murder, Suicide attempt, and Violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Child abuse, Fatphobia, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, and Homophobia

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

annabella's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.5

I just felt nothing really happened. It picked up in part 2 and 3 but part 4 just felt rushed and too ‘convenient’, the ambiguity just didn’t really make me excited. Not what I expected!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Violence, Kidnapping, and Grief

Minor: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Gun violence, Sexual violence, and Blood

coophone's review against another edition

dark reflective tense

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Child death, Domestic abuse, Death, Child abuse, Homophobia, and Violence

vickytx's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Violence and Death

_vampiresquid's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Violence

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Bullying

Child Kidnapping, Brain Damage

A child is kidnapped, the main character’s brother and receives some brain damage. Seth feels guilty that he might of caused it.

Death; hell/punishment

Seth believes he has gone to hell and/or is being punished for his actions in life

Forced LGBTQ+ Coming-Out

Seth is forced out of the closet when some-one spreads an image around at school of him and another guy. He is bullied, which is part of his reasoning for committing suicide.

ssgcedits's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

Amazing premise, great writing, terrible trauma. Not going through it again--ever. For such a complex story the lukewarm ending is quite disappointing. But, honestly, I don't think I could take another page of this nightmare world.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Injury/Injury detail, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Violence

Moderate: Religious bigotry