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The Rest of Us Just Live Here
by Patrick Ness
What a blast! Ness has created a world where all the various things that other teen fantasy writers make happen are for real. His teenagers talk about the zombie attacks that happened back in [name the year] and the vampire invasion of [name another year, perhaps 10 years or so away from said zombie problem] and the bodysnatchers back in their parents' time, and so on. Of course, the adults choose to block all that out of their minds, or most of the adults do. It's all in a normal day's existence to see a glowing teenager come running out of the woods or to see a light shafting down from the sky. But, happily for our narrator and his friends, they are not part of the group of kids that all those things happen to. Those kids are the 'indie kids' (read the book to see what Ness's narrator means by that). Our narrator and his friends, well they're the rest who just live there.
Great pace, great teen issues (you know, school, love, etc.), and quirky chapter headings that don't belong with the rest of the narrative but instead tell the supernatural side of the story. I loved it.
Great pace, great teen issues (you know, school, love, etc.), and quirky chapter headings that don't belong with the rest of the narrative but instead tell the supernatural side of the story. I loved it.