This is a brave, refreshing multi-layered novel from an award-winning author. I thoroughly enjoyed The Rest of Us Just Live Here as it truly tapped into the minds of all these individual voices and showed us how it can feel to be lost amongst people.Ī new Patrick Ness novel is always an event and this smart, funny book is a highlight of the year for me. In this way, as well others, Ness has created a diversity in his characters that so many books still beg for, and certainly that the community is crying out for. OCD is not liking your books in alphabetical order - it's a dangerous and debilitating disease. It also portrays mental illness in a blunt, honest and painful way that helps to break up stigmas and stereotypes. It condenses the pressures that young people feel at this stage of their life - both from the outside and from the inside, and weaves this sense of melancholy into the very bones of the words it uses.
Ultimately, The Rest of Us is a story of the hope, fear, anxiety and uncertainty that comes with the end of childhood and the trepidation that comes with stepping into the life of adulthood. I greatly enjoyed the subversion of YA tropes - the chapter descriptions are a particular delight - but the warmth of the relationships stood out for me: siblings, friends and lovers. Ness is a writer who always surprises and this won't disappoint. What if you weren't the Chosen One? The one supposed to fight the Zombies or the soul eating ghosts? What if you have problems bigger than the end of the world, and just want to graduate and go to prom? This is a novel about ordinary kids, their hopes, dreams and relationships, while the indies kids run around saving humanity. An exceptional novel from the author praised by John Green as an insanely beautiful writer. Even if your best friend might just be the God of mountain lions. Read more Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold and irreverent novel powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable. Description for The Rest of Us Just Live Here Paperback.
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