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More Than This

By: Patrick Ness
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
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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, agonising 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 ...

©2013 Patrick Ness (P)2013 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd Death & Dying Fantasy Fiction Science Fiction Science Fiction & Fantasy Suicide Survival Stories Young Adult

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"[Ness has] outdone himself ... a terrific exemplar of the eternal teenage desire for there to be, in the words of the novel's title, "more than this" – more than a world in which prejudice and hypocrisy dictate how people should or shouldn't live their lives." ( Guardian)

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Great premise, falls a bit short...

I've loved Ness' previous work. This is good, but doesn't live up to its predecessors.

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Fantastic book & narrator

Absolutely loved this book and the narration. Took me a couple chapters to get in to it completely but I became obsessed. Highly recommend to anyone interested in the simulation theory

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riveting read!

brilliantly narrated by Patrick Podehl this novel involves the reader in the characters' dilemmas and conflicts. Never a slow moment. Ness raises issues which are important for older youth readers ...and for everone , such as 'is this all there is to life?

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