More Than This

Name: More Than This
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.33 (3 reviews)
Author: Patrick Ness
ISBN: 9781480519060

Author: Patrick Ness

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Unabridged: 10 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio

Published: 11/26/2013

Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Boys & Men

Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of the Chaos Walking trilogy and A Monster Calls comes one of the most provocative teen novels of our time.A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is this possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he here? And where is this place? The street seems familiar, but everything is abandoned, overgrown, covered in dust.What’s going on? Is it real? Or has he woken up in his own personal hell? Seth begins to search for answers, hoping desperately that there must be more to this life, or perhaps this afterlife.…

About Patrick Ness

Patrick Ness is the author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Chaos Walking trilogy, as well as the Carnegie Medal-winning A Monster Calls, inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd. Among the numerous awards he has received are the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children's Book Award. Born in Virginia, he lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by karen on May 26, 2022

this book treated me like a dog treats a ragdoll. and i have no idea where to begin. patrick ness has written a game-changer that i'm not even really sure how to approach. this is a YA novel. i've lost half of you book snobs right there. but i think that is my point. YA has been breaking free of its......more

Goodreads review by Regan on June 09, 2023

I like how I still don't know what happened. And I like how that was the point.......more

Goodreads review by Emily May on September 12, 2013

Look. Here's the thing. I am not generous with my five star ratings. Five star readings must have shocked me or blown my mind or done something really original or otherwise awesome to get me to throw that final star in their direction. So a four star rating is, for me, really really good. I want......more

Goodreads review by Emily on January 03, 2019

A book that literally starts with the main character dying and waking up... that's how you make me pick up your book. More Than This is a YA coming of age book with some LGBTQ+ representation that follow the main character as he struggles to figure out if there's more after life. Very interesting conc......more

Goodreads review by jessica on August 10, 2018

huh. what an interestingly bizarre story. ness’ ‘chaos walking’ trilogy is one of my favourite series ever, so i was very eager to finally read some of his other works - but this was not what i was expecting. it was a little strange, a little confusing, but somewhat intriguing. this rating probably......more