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Title: The Rest Of Us Just Live Here
Author: Patrick Ness
Publication Date: August 27th 2015 (first published June 7th 2010)
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
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What if you aren’t the Chosen One? The one who’s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you’re 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 is worshipped by mountain lions.
Title: The Rest Of Us Just Live Here
Author: Patrick Ness
Publication Date: August 27th 2015 (first published June 7th 2010)
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Rating:
Description:
What if you aren’t the Chosen One? The one who’s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you’re 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 is worshipped by mountain lions.
Review
Firstly: A book by Patrick Ness? Yes please! Secondly: This book was somewhat weird, the good kind of weird. We follow Mikey and his friends who are just trying to survive until they graduate. This book doesn't follow your "normal" main character, "the Chosen One", it follows the normally labelled side characters. Mikey and his friends attend the same school as "The Indie Kids" aka The Chosen Ones. While we don't get much interaction between Mikey, his friends and the Indie Kids we do get to read snippets of what the Indie Kids are up to at the beginning of each chapter. I liked the idea of this book, for me it was like "yes, there is an apocalypse type situation going on but things are happening to Mikey and his friends that would be seen as insignificant to others in this situation but to the people involved they are every bit as challenging." People have eating disorders, OCD, anxiety, distant/absent parents, unrequited love and car accidents and these things matter. There was a particular part in the book that I loved, Mikey suffers with anxiety and eventually returns to his psychologist for help and their conversation about it... I don't know how to explain it, I just loved it!
"Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for it's consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But Michael, you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumour."
As ever, I love Patrick Ness' writing. This book has vampires, Gods, Chosen Ones and zombie deers. What's not to love?
Quotes
“Not everyone has to be the Chosen One. Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.”
“And yeah, I know most people would think it weird that two guy friends touch as much as we do, but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too. This is how we work. I hope you get to choose your family and I hope it means as much to you as mine does to me.”
“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.”
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