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Mehr als das by Bettina Abarbanell, Patrick Ness

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imrg's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.75

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rachandnors's review against another edition

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reflective

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

I did not realise this was a YA book, the genre is not something I'd usually reach for however I still enjoyed the book and feel that if I was in that age bracket it may have been a 5 star book

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hazeclarke's review against another edition

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dark emotional hopeful mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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jace_lee_koe's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful 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? It's complicated

4.5

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gravy_soup's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful inspiring 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? It's complicated

5.0

Jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, and simply unforgettable. Most importantly, however, its gut-punch provides a tear-jerking reason to live.

Make no mistake, it's definitely not for everyone--it takes risks and fumbles here and there, but ultimately winds up encompassing everything I love about fiction. Its emotional core is striking, its characters deep and rich, its concept absolutely perfect, and, of course, it takes risks, and when the risks pay-off, they really pay off.

It's a moving novel, so moving that I can't help but respect it to its very core, even when it makes a few tiny missteps.

No guarantee you'll like it as much as I did, but definitely give it a read.

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gbthemango's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark funny inspiring mysterious reflective 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? No

4.5

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frozenheartv's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

5 stars
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“Are you serious? Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.” - Regine

🧠 My thoughts
I have never rated any YA book 5 stars, but here I am doing so. It’s not because YA books are not good but for me, most of them don’t hit the right spot and have annoying dialogues. This book was just a random pick but I was so glad I got to read it.

Don’t get me wrong, this book wasn’t perfect but it raised so many good questions that non-YA books can’t even do it this well. Reading this book felt like watching a movie fleshing out in front of my eyes. What is real and what is not? Are we sure that the world we are living in is perfect? If not, would we ever find another perfect world where there would be no bad things? Just like how we are trying to find another better planet to live on if Earth went down or building Metaverse to escape the harsh and sad reality? It was very heartbreaking to read about all of the trauma that the characters have to go through while being so young. Was that the reason why they sound more mature than they should be?

The storyline was pretty strong for a sci-fi book that was meant to confuse the audience. Most of the things were “kind of explained” at the end.

For being such a great book, it still has drawbacks of course. The pace of the part 1 was sometimes really slow for me. I understood the author’s idea but I thought it would still be great if it was cut in half. Part 2 pacing was really good but part 3 was again a bit slower than I expected.

👍 What I like

Strong storyline
Deeply meaningful conversations and philosophies
World-building is very trustable
Sci-fi parts were creative

👎 What I don't like

Can be very slow in some parts
I wish that the sci-fi parts could be delved deeper into

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cjfooks's review against another edition

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adventurous 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? Yes

3.75

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maya_b's review

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adventurous emotional 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

4.5

I switched between German and English for this one and think both are pretty great. I enjoyed the story a lot.

I really liked Seth as a character, loved how reflective and emotional especially the first half of the book was, and I liked how all of it worked together. For some reason I still had to fight to pick the book up every now and then, because even though I loved everything about it, it kind of exhausted me to read it, but I wouldn’t say it’s a bad book. Not at all.

Even though it sure as hell isn’t what I expected. I don’t even know why, the blurb even compared the story to

Matrix and Inception

(on my version at least), so I most definitely should have seen all of that coming, but just nothing else (least of all the very calm green cover of somebody watching the sea) prepared me for everything after the first Part of the book, and so it took me completely by surprise. But somehow it worked.

The book feels like it changes the Genre completely after the first part, and suddenly it’s from this very slow and reflective pace and a person trying to process their life and accept their choices to a science fiction novel with fights and the world ending and stuff, and I feel like it should have taken me out of the whole situation, but it didn’t. It felt right for it to take this path.

Seth was a great main character, and I love him. He makes mistakes, is pretty self-centered (a lot, at least, not always), but also he was really lovely and it felt like he was right. Yeah, he did stupid stuff, and yeah, maybe he did make rash decisions, and maybe it wasn’t all about him and he shouldn’t have done some stuff or assumed some things, but … it made sense, for his character, to be that way, and it made sense why he felt like he felt, and with all his problems and flaws he was still great.

Same goes for Tomasz, who’s by far my favorite (he had to go through so much, and he’s so strong, and yet he still manages to be happy, and to fight for his happiness, and he’s trying to make everyone feel better, and I just love that strong little fighter so much, you have no idea!), and of course Regine, too. She’s also great. A little cold, but as much a fighter as the rest, and she tries too, and god, do I love that she knows what she wants. Yeah, she’s judgmental (of course she is) and she probably could try to be better, but it’s so obvious where she’s coming from, and it made just as much sense for her to be the way she was as it made for the rest of them, and I just love all the characters.

I also liked all of the stories and the people connected to them, and it was really interesting to get to know the world all of them lived in. Also really liked the conclusion of all of it, and to get to know what happened together with the characters, and my heart absolutely broke a few times, and I very much did almost cry a few times, too, but it still felt like a nice story. And even though it got very dark at times, and so sad, it never felt too much for me. It was always quite balanced, in my opinion, and actually had quite a hopeful feel to it a lot of the time (even though it was very hopeless at other times).

The only thing I didn’t like about the book, was the ending. Or I like the ending, actually, but I didn’t like where it ended. I really wanted to know just a little bit more of what would happen next.

Mostly because from the beginning there was nothing I wanted more than for the parents to actually actively realize that maybe they have two kids and one of those kids doesn’t feel like his parents care all that much, and I really wanted to see them at least starting to work through all of that.

But it did work, and I’m not really disappointing or anything because most of the stuff was there, and I like where all the characters ended up (for now).

Had a lot of fun with that story. Really surprising, didn’t know what I’d get myself into, and maybe shouldn’t have worked, but somehow did. For me at least. But also I like slow books, and you have to get through a lot of slow scenes, before it speeds up quite a lot, so probably not for everyone.

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madelinesedai's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense slow-paced

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

3.5

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