Reviews

More Than This by Patrick Ness

tinfoilpotatoe's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad 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

3.25

gsterling2002's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

This might be my top book of this year. Beautifully written and looks at the complexity of our choices and what makes life worth living. It had me laughing and crying simultaneously. All of the characters are complex and have flaws that ultimately make them more intriguing and lovable. 100% recommend giving it a read

nennmill's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

jade_ls_lee's review against another edition

5.0

Iegrābos atkal. No sērijas "palasīšu kādu atsevišķu darbu citiem pa vidu". Hahahaa.

Uzbūve vien dzen uz priekšu. Nebeidzama mistērija un katras nodaļas beigas ar cliffanger.


Un tad sākās heartbreak.



Pēdējā trešdaļā beidzot kaut cik saprotams, kas notiek? But anyways.... LET GET MORE HEARTBREAK, SHALL WE!!! :)))



Pēdējās nodaļas un beidzot visa pagātne atklājas un es tikai sēžu un baidos lasīt, jo zinu kas sekos, un izdodu traka kaķa skaņas...




Nebija viena fināla atbilde vai viss precīzi nodefinēts.. Vai šis ir sci-fi, vai kas cits.... Bet vismaz fakts, ka šī grāmāta fucks you up ir skaidrs.




[P.S. Desmit minūtes pēc izlasīšanas apskatīju vēlreiz vāku, sapratu nosaukuma referenci un palīdu zem gultas nobeigties kādu brīdi]

grave_liminal's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Homophobia, Suicide, and Outing

Moderate: Alcoholism, Blood, Death of parent, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Child death, Infidelity, and Fire/Fire injury

elanna76's review against another edition

2.0

Meh.

The central idea, the settings and the first few chapters are not bad at all, what with the eerie ash covering everything and the horse and the looming dream/memories, but I stopped believing the whole thing half-way through. The characters are quite bi-dimensional and they do improbable stuff like having long-winded conversations while running around with their knees up to their ears, the Polish boy's speech patterns make me want to gouge my eyes out, and now that I think about it there is a whole lot too much running around, in general, for my taste.

Also, I wasn't at all impressed by the sneaky metafictional nods to the

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fact that the narrative is heavily plot-driven. I can nearly hear the author thinking "sh*t, I wrote myself into a tragic ending and now I need the cavalry to save the day at the last minute, AGAIN. Shall I rethink my approach to this novel? Nah, let's get the deus ex machina to do my job instead of me, and then I'll make the boy ONCE AGAIN muse on the possibility that this is all a hallucination made up by his brain, BECAUSE THE CAVALRY KEEPS COMING AT THE LAST MOMENT. So maybe the readers will not notice what I have done here. And let's leave the whole mess unsolved once I get to writing the end, because, who cares. I can't be bothered".

Seriously, I kept waiting till the end for it to be a major plot twist and... niet. The ending itself would have been decent, if it were not for all the guns appearing in the first act and never ever being given a chance to shoot at the end of the third.

Finally, a question for whom already read this novel:

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that Terminator guy, was it really necessary, except for creating plot without having to actually write one? Wouldn't have spared us a lot of "this can't be real, it's all too convenient for me" and "oh look I thought you were dead impaled on a metallic leg and instead here you are bruised but fine after losing half your blood"? Are you satisfied with the explanation that nobody really knows anything and who cares, I love y'all anyway and life is beautiful?

All in all, a very good occasion spoilt because of sheer laziness.

paramore83's review against another edition

4.0

3.75

radical_beatty's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious 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

4.5

sarahbrown319's review

adventurous hopeful inspiring 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

4.0

alienclans's review against another edition

3.0

I enjoyed this in some respects but I just felt sort of "meh" by the end of it. The beginning was the strongest but as it went on, I realized that I didn't really care about anything that was happening. It was well written, the characters were interesting, the questions it raised were interesting, but none of it ever felt real enough for me. I wanted more from just about everything.