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More Than This
by Patrick Ness
2018 pride reads #5
lgbt+ rep: gay mc, gay side character
I swear to god, Patrick Ness will be the cause of my death. This book was so beautiful and interesting and complex. Not one I would recommend for someone's first Patrick Ness book, but if you already love his works then I'm pretty sure you'll love this too.
I don't want to say too much about the plot because you don't find out much until about halfway through and even then you don't know the full story until near the end, so I'll just say that it was very interesting and went in a direction I didn't think it would.
The characters, as per usual, were messy and complicated and a joy to read about. A pattern I've started to notice after reading a few of Patrick Ness' books is that the parents of the protagonist are usually not 'good' parents but are instead complicated human beings who fuck up sometimes. I really like this aspect of his works as generally in YA parents are either (a) not there, (b) pieces of garbage or (c) the protagonist's best friend, which gets really boring after a while, so I like that he puts time and effort into making all of his characters feel like real people. Also, props for having a 12 year old boy be a major character and make him endearing instead of annoying, that's really difficult to do.
Diversity was included well and without force, also as per usual. The protagonist is gay, as is a side character who is kind of his love interest. The stand-out for me was easily Regine, a fat black girl who stole my heart and who I would die for by the end of the book.
I've discovered that Patrick Ness' writing is like crack for me. The first 100 or so pages are actually pretty boring plot-wise as nothing much really happens, but I found his writing so addictive I didn't care.
I don't want to go too much into the relationships because those are also pretty spoilery but the friendships in this book were so sweet.
If you're going to read this, make sure you don't get spoiled because it's so much fun to unravel the mystery of what's happening along with the protagonist.
lgbt+ rep: gay mc, gay side character
I swear to god, Patrick Ness will be the cause of my death. This book was so beautiful and interesting and complex. Not one I would recommend for someone's first Patrick Ness book, but if you already love his works then I'm pretty sure you'll love this too.
I don't want to say too much about the plot because you don't find out much until about halfway through and even then you don't know the full story until near the end, so I'll just say that it was very interesting and went in a direction I didn't think it would.
The characters, as per usual, were messy and complicated and a joy to read about. A pattern I've started to notice after reading a few of Patrick Ness' books is that the parents of the protagonist are usually not 'good' parents but are instead complicated human beings who fuck up sometimes. I really like this aspect of his works as generally in YA parents are either (a) not there, (b) pieces of garbage or (c) the protagonist's best friend, which gets really boring after a while, so I like that he puts time and effort into making all of his characters feel like real people. Also, props for having a 12 year old boy be a major character and make him endearing instead of annoying, that's really difficult to do.
Diversity was included well and without force, also as per usual. The protagonist is gay, as is a side character who is kind of his love interest. The stand-out for me was easily Regine, a fat black girl who stole my heart and who I would die for by the end of the book.
I've discovered that Patrick Ness' writing is like crack for me. The first 100 or so pages are actually pretty boring plot-wise as nothing much really happens, but I found his writing so addictive I didn't care.
I don't want to go too much into the relationships because those are also pretty spoilery but the friendships in this book were so sweet.
If you're going to read this, make sure you don't get spoiled because it's so much fun to unravel the mystery of what's happening along with the protagonist.