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beetlemortis's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Cursing, Death, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Grief
Moderate: Physical abuse, Blood, Kidnapping, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Child death, Domestic abuse, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Murder
wonkwink's review against another edition
- 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
5.0
Graphic: Body horror and Suicide
Minor: Fatphobia, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Murder
bennybooks's review against another edition
- 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
4.5
Moderate: Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Toxic friendship, and Injury/Injury detail
tmchopra's review against another edition
- 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
4.75
Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Grief, Suicide attempt, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Child death
Minor: Cursing, Homophobia, Vomit, Toxic friendship, and Abandonment
emclean95's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Physical abuse, Violence, Suicide attempt, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Blood
scout_jones's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Suicide, Violence, Trafficking, Kidnapping, Grief, Suicide attempt, Murder, Outing, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Fatphobia, Homophobia, and Xenophobia
suncreems's review against another edition
- 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
3.0
Graphic: Physical abuse and Suicide
Minor: Child death and Death of parent
emory's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
It does tie in to one of my main complaints about the book, though. The prose was alright, if trying too hard to sound like slam poetry at times, but the plot could not seem to make up it's mind about whether to lean into the speculative science fiction or a poetic reflection. We never get enough explanation about the former and never enough exploration into the latter, which leads to a lackluster ending and grandiose conclusions without the writing effort to back it up.
Not to mention that the book doesn't even really hold up it's title. Towards the end, when the characters start to be shoehorned into their philosophical chit chat, Seth has a revelation about his suicidal ideation and how he feels about his life. The problem is that none of the discussion about what life means and what is left for them makes much sense. It's a commendable effort, and I'm not trying to say it's a horrible book or that I hated reading it; however, the conclusions have nothing to back them up. The characters talk in circles about the meaning of life. We get no justification about why Tomasz and Regine don't get the kind of "more" that Seth seems confident he will be able to find. Even the sweet little moment about friendship has little to nothing to back it up; they've known each other for about 3 days, and have been fighting for most of it. But suddenly they have a wonderful revelation that their amazing friendship is the point of life? That the broken world they live in isn't awful?
Again, I don't have all negative things to say about this book. The plot was enjoyable--just a bit empty. The writing was a bit ornate at points, but it was fitting for the hopelessness innate to the main character at points. The descriptions were theatric and vivid, and to be able to hold attention while the entire first part of the book is a single character living in an empty wasteland is no small feat.
Mainly, I just wish More Than This had had more.
Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Murder, and Outing
Moderate: Death, Gore, Homophobia, Blood, Grief, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Fatphobia, Car accident, and Fire/Fire injury
A black character on a few occasions voices something fatphobic or antiblack she expects the other characters to say to her, even though ostensibly this doesn't need to be in the narrative at all, so that's a weird choice on the authors part. Additionally this is definitely not something to read if you're not in the headspace to deal with something akin to simulation theory or that the world is fake.rosietoast's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Death and Suicide
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, and Outing
Minor: Child death
vthecreature's review against another edition
- 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
I didn’t see some of the smaller plot twists coming such as
The characters weren’t super complex,
Graphic: Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Violence, Blood, Murder, and Outing
Moderate: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, and Homophobia
Minor: Body shaming, Bullying, Racism, and Sexual content
Kidnapping