More Than This

by Patrick Ness

Book Overview

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. A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. 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. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. 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. . . .

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763662585
• ISBN13: 9780763662585
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 472 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 14 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 9 and higher

Customer Reviews

Hard cover is the best to get lol

I initially started reading this book and got bored. Mainly because it’s not the type of book that I’m used too. And the first part is very descriptive. It really sets the setting for the rest of the book which I didn’t enjoy at first but understood the exaggeration of his descriptions. I will say I did expect some of the outcomes but others caught me off guard. First time reading Patrick Ness’s books, it was surprising funny and enjoyable. I’m giving it 4 stars instead of 3 just because the genre may not be for me but for others it may be great!

Fresh idea, enjoyable, twist

I enjoyed this one & recommend it to friends often.

Unbelievably amazing

I read this book maybe 2 or 3 years ago, and it still haunts me. I am constantly thinking of the characters and what happens after the story ends. Patrick Ness is an amazing author overall, but he really outdid himself with this one. The beginning is slow and a little boring, but it really grabs you by the heart. It will have you questioning what is real and what is fake as well as "what would you have done"