The Rest of Us Just Live Here

By Author / Illustrator

Patrick Ness

Genre

Adventure

Publisher

Walker Books Ltd

ISBN

9781406365566

Format

Paperback / softback

Published

05-05-2016

Synopsis

Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold and irreverent novel powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable.

Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold and irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life. Even if your best friend might just be the God of mountain lions... An exceptional novel from the author praised by John Green as \"an insanely beautiful writer\".

Reviews

This book was well written and overall - the parts I read - very descriptive. However I found it very hard to connect with the characters and at times I struggles with the story line. Especially the first paragraph of each chapter which was referring to a separate story line all together. This made it especially hard to keep up with two sets of characters who are seemingly unrelated. Despite this I did greatly enjoy the overall writing style and atmosphere within the book. Definitely worth reading.