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More Than This | June 26, 2013

by Patrick Ness (Candlewick Press, September 2013)

 After Patrick Ness slayed me with The Chaos Walking trilogy and even more so with A Monster Calls, I needed to get my hands on an ARC of his upcoming YA novel, More Than This, out this September. More Than This features seventeen-year-old Seth, who—in the very first pages of the book—drowns and dies, head smashing against the rocks. But then Seth wakes up in a town that looks a lot like the English village he grew up in. How can Seth be alive? Is this the afterlife, or another life? Why is everything abandoned and covered in dust? Seth has painful memories of the nearby prison only miles away from his childhood home—and it might just have some answers to his questions. Unusual and compelling, Ness has weaved a fascinating, strange tale not just about reality and life, or family and second chances, but the emotions and relationships that make us want to live. He will slay you again. And read it with a friend, because you’ll really want to talk about it afterward!

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