There’s even this particular chapter so jarring and visceral it kept me on the edge of my seat. Reading More Than This feels to me like walking in a dark tunnel, when you can just see the light seeping through a door, quite far away, quite within reach. The pacing is impeccable-teasing in a way that keeps the reader engaged all the time but that is also efficient as to not be frustrating. Sometimes it didn’t make any sense at all.” “No, life didn’t always go how you thought it might. And all this in a backdrop of family dysfunction, youthful impulse and longing, acceptance and big life questions. It continuously flips everything on its head, like, at one point, you’d think, okay that was all of the cards right? But no, Ness hacks the chair off and-bam!-you’re back to square one figuring out-with the main character-what everything means.

It’s powerfully tense and the writing is spot-on, hitting the marks in places meditative and in others deeply affecting. I’ve never quite read anything like More Than This in a long time, if I ever read one to begin with. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, or perhaps this afterlife? How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place?Īs he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive. Goodreads | Amazon | The Book Depository | Fully BookedĪ boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. Other classifications: Bullying, Depression and Mental Illness, LGBTQIA, Weird, Young Adult Publication: May 1st 2014 by Walker Books Ltd (first published September 10th 2013)

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