It’s funny, it’s snarky, and it doesn’t hold back on making fun of some of the conventional concepts and ideas in YA books right now. I’m gonna tell it to you straight: The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness is bit of a roast. Warning: There is some profanity in this book and this review – it’s not extreme, but it might be something that puts some parents off. Again.īecause 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.Įven if your best friend is worshiped by mountain lions.Īward-winning writer Patrick Ness’s bold and irreverent novel powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable. 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.
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? (Oct.Publisher: Harper Teen Publication date: October 6th 2015īuy It: Indigo.ca | | The Book Depository | iBooks | Google Books | Audible Each chapter opens with an ominous (and hilarious) synopsis about the imminent showdown between the Immortals and the hipster clique, and while the payoff after all the supernatural and emotional buildup is minimal, this is Mikey’s story to tell and he’s not trying to save the world, just himself.
Their diverse circle of friends includes Henna (Mikey’s crush) and Jared who is (secretly) part god. Zombie deer and eerie blue pillars of light suggest apocalypse (again) in their remote town in Washington State, but they are busy trying to survive familial dysfunction (their father is an alcoholic, their mother a power-hungry politician) that has worsened Mikey’s anxiety and given Mel an eating disorder. Siblings Mikey and Melinda know something sinister is happening when the “indie kids” start dying in mysterious ways. Having written both exquisite fantasies and heartbreaking contemporary stories, Ness ( More Than This) forays into satire, and mostly succeeds, poking fun at the Chosen One trope-imagine a novel about Bella and Edward’s classmates wrestling with exams, college admission, and unrequited love, with all those vampire/werewolf shenanigans as backdrop.
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