A review by comfsp
More Than This by Patrick Ness

adventurous dark emotional mysterious reflective tense
  • 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

Overall a quite enjoyable read, however the end felt waay too rushed. 
 
one one hand i get that the whole story was like 'there are things that have a secondary meaning and things you have to take at face value and you'll never know what is what because it's life and life is unpredictable' but on the other hand i feel like the author started one too many twists and didn't know how to resolve them.
also gay people never getting a happy end is so normalized in media that every time Gudmund did something sweet (and he did plenty of that, he's a nice guy) i got sooo suspicious at him. i literally have a note at page 79 at 'not unless they were forced. not unless someone forced them.' saying GUDMUND!!!4! lol

the other thing i did not really like about this was the way the author kept trying to spoon-feed us the moral of the story over and over again, using this random little Polish child as his spokesman. at times it got really comical. i guess i can see why he was trying to get his ideas across like that, like kids can sometimes have really nuanced and interesting viewpoints adults don't often think about, but at times it felt like he was kind of self-aware of this fact and even made fun of it. other times not so much.
and these ideas were sooo repetitive, they came up over and over and got discussed way too many times
HATE the ending though
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