Author: Patrick Ness
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Another recommendation by one of my students and it’s a spectacular one.

Diving into a book completely blind is a gamble, especially when time is limited and there are scores of excellent titles out there. After chapter one of this book, I had to finish it.

I’m disappointed I just discovered Patrick Ness, but also worried because of the certainty I will be reading out his entire library this year. More Than This was a mystery, wrapped in infinite layers, and each turn of the page came with a hope some of those layers would be peeled away.

Ness has a way of making you feel satisfied by what you discovered, but frustrated because more questions come about as a result. A boy dies in chapter one, wakes up in chapter two and by the end of the book, there’s no solid resolution of what he woke up into.

There are just a few characters, but each went deep and each had a life of their own.

It’s hard to talk about this book without giving away the plot, but it’s hard to give away the plot when you’re not sure if you got it all. You end up loving this book for that reason.