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Who is in charge of picking books that become movies?

The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

January 17, 2022 by Claudia 1 Comment

Seriously, who is in charge? I could say from a mile away this series would NOT make a good movie. But it did make a really good book series. I found myself emotionally involved and invested in the first book and in love with the second. The third was a bit of a let down personally but the conclusion and characters were still strong. Quick plot summary: Todd is a boy aging into manhood on a planet with a lack of women. The men of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Patrick Ness

Claudia's CBR14 Review No:11 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Patrick Ness ·
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When favorite authors disappoint you, pt 2: disappoint harder

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

April 8, 2021 by Rooooomie 6 Comments

In my second review for CBR13, I wrote about how disappointing it is when one of your favorite authors writes a book that you just do not like. I don’t know if this is some kind of cannonball curse, but with book 6 of this challenge, it has happened to me again. I used to be a huge YA fan, and the first book in Patrick Ness’s Chaos Walking trilogy still ranks as one of my favorites. His short novel A Monster Calls is amazing too […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CBR13, Fiction, Patrick Ness, YA, Young Adult

Rooooomie's CBR13 Review No:6 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CBR13, Fiction, Patrick Ness, YA, Young Adult ·
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The Monster of Grief

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

February 4, 2021 by esmemoria 8 Comments

It took me three-quarters of the way through A Monster Calls before I began to appreciate it. Throughout much of the book I was repelled by the protagonist’s unlikability, and his bottomless anger at everything and everyone in his life. But then my view changed. The main character is a boy named Conor. His mother is sick with cancer, he rarely sees his father who lives in another country, and his mother’s mother is cold to him. Conor is plagued by an unspeakable dream every […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Patrick Ness

esmemoria's CBR13 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Patrick Ness ·
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This was fine, but the satire didn’t really resonate for me.

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

September 14, 2020 by narfna Leave a Comment

Everybody raves about Patrick Ness, but this is my first experience with his books. He seems like a talented writer. His prose was well-executed. He knows his way around story and character arcs. And he seems very imaginative and inventive. I even read this book pretty fast, and while reading, I wasn’t ever wishing I was reading something else. But . . . I just didn’t click with it. And the parts I did click with were sort of undercut by the ending. It was […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Young Adult Tagged With: #fantasy, narfna, Patrick Ness, Satire, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, YA, ya fantasy, Young Adult

narfna's CBR12 Review No:129 · Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult · Tags: #fantasy, narfna, Patrick Ness, Satire, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, YA, ya fantasy, Young Adult ·
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It’s a Perfectly Fine Book

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

June 19, 2020 by Tracy Leave a Comment

I don’t have a lot to say about this one. I wanted to like it more than I did. That said, it wasn’t a bad book. It was just . . . fine. I enjoyed reading it, it kept my attention, and it’s a quick read that I finished in about a day. I would recommend it, I don’t regret reading it (though I do regret buying it), and I can’t point to anything I disliked about it. But it was still just . . […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Patrick Ness, supernatural

Tracy's CBR12 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Patrick Ness, supernatural ·
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But What Goes on With Everyone Else While the Chosen Ones Deal With all the Villain Stuff?

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

February 4, 2019 by Lisa Bee Leave a Comment

I have only read one other novel by Patrick Ness before (also of the YA variety) and did not like it very much, but I had heard good things about The Rest of Us Just Live Here and figured I should give it a shot: as it turns out I found this novel be well worth the read. Despite involving some fantastical elements, these magical components for the most part are only the background of the more human-centric story which the book focuses; at it’s […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: Patrick Ness

Lisa Bee's CBR11 Review No:7 · Genres: Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: Patrick Ness ·
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