I seriously doubt that the human race has much of a future left with this kid in it, at least the portion of the human race he is plugged into. I understand that he is just a 17yr-old kid, and he's not expected to grasp the difference between real friends and imaginary ones yet, but seriously? There may have been ways of making the choice at the end of this story seem right, for him or for anyone else, but this novel didn't convince me. I won't ruin it for those who have the intention still of reading this book, but it was disappointing. What really dropped the star rating on this book for me (from a 4 the vague non-storytelling bits already bugged me too much for a 5) was the ending. I was grateful that at least the book was not full of angsty teen dialogue that very few teenaage boys (and not many girls) I've ever known would be caught uttering, even under their breath there were a few pages of this, of course, because as a YA novel, how could it not throw in just a dose of the angsty stuff.

After a while being mysterious about who the only character introduced so far is, with constant but vague hints that there is a story, but that the author isn't going to tell it just yet, tamp down whatever excitement and interest the reader might otherwise have felt while reading about the character's strange 'post'-death experiences. What's going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this.The writing was ok, certainly well edited, but awfully vague and boring for the first 50 pages. Aaron Kampman: '(Lukas Van Ness) has more tools than I ever had' Former Hawkeye and Packer Aaron Kampman had some high praise for Van Ness. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America.

There’s very little time to rest during the race that is More Than This, but it’s a marathon I would run again and again. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. Ness is also a bit of a troll, but in a good wayjust when you think everything is going to be OK and your heart has finally stopped racing, another holy crap moment will happen and you’re off again.

A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life-or perhaps afterlife-of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world.

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