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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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Unapologetic Patrick Ness Fan Likes Patrick Ness Book: Film at 11!

July 5, 2018 by MrsLangdonAlger 4 Comments

I discovered recently that people really aren’t a fan of Patrick Ness, and I was baffled: he’s one of my favorite YA writers. I loved how dark and weird the Chaos Walking trilogy got, and I will never stop being disappointed that Charlie Kaufman is no longer involved in the movie adaptation of it. I thought what he did with the bare bones of A Monster Calls was lovely and touching. I thought More Than This was very weird, but interesting. I even liked Release […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Patrick Ness

Post by MrsLangdonAlger · Genres: Young Adult · Tags: Patrick Ness ·
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‘Life is happening to us now, just like it’s happening to you’

June 25, 2018 by Carriejay 1 Comment

Mikey is about to graduate from high school and head off to college, escaping his small town and irritating parents, but leaving behind some amazing friends. His anxiety is through the roof, trapping him in loops of hand washing and counting, and that’s before the indie kids start dying. There’s something strange happening in this town. Again. There’s been soul eating ghosts and vampires and gods and now there’s something else lurking in the woods causing the deer to freak out and the police force […]

Filed Under: Young Adult Tagged With: Patrick Ness

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