“People see stories everywhere [...] We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true [...] We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.” — Regine —

 Hello hello again everybody! welcome to the book review post of the book that i highly anticipate (yet i keep it long enough in my TBR just in case i'm in slump) and the time has come! (not because i got into slump, okay maybe i am, a little bit, but because finally i read it!) Patrick Ness has been in my list for favorite author, thanks to the Chaos Walking series, (which if you haven't read it already, please do!) which i always try to recommend you to read in most of my book recs. Anyway, let's dive in!

Synopsis

"Here is the boy, drowning."

Booom!!! that first line! got to be honest i hooked already by this first sentence with this book. The story follows Seth who was drowning then wake up in the place that he believe is his personal hell, because he's at his old house in England, the place where the worse event in his life, that tuns into his personal nightmare, happened.  No one there except himself. Back and fort with his past memories of his life while he fall asleep, he thought he was alone then he suddenly meet another human in that place, and begin to discover the mystery of what exactly happened.

My Review

The plot is back and fort from the past to the present time. The past divided into two part, the before he got drown which lead to what is the whole reason why he got drown in the first place, and also the past long before he moved with his family to America, the story that happened in the England back when he was 8 years old, the exact place where he woke up right now.

The plot is a bit slow at the beginning with the confusion around, what happened and lots of whys and whats, i did took a lot of time to adapting the book, but as always, i love the concept of it, the newness of it, Patrick Ness always has this kind of things in his works for me, where he got the unique part, anti-mainstream writing style of his. (i will explain and compare whole of his works later in the future)

The rest of half of the book begin with super speedy pace, with kind of 180 degrees of  flipping in the plot which made it became the whole new experience and genre in my opinion. And yes that give me a sweet ride for speedy reading experience. 

The ending tho! I really don't want to spoil you, but in the last page of the story, i just want to say, as its title, i need more than this! I think if i read it like 3 or 4 years ago (in the beginning of  my reading journey) i don't think i will like this book, but because i read it now (and thank God for that) i looovee the ending! i dunno, like i said, it's always anti-mainstream for all of Patrick Ness' works! And as always, the message that left behind after you read his works always left you think more about the moral of the story.

My Rating

It's a Uh-Yeah for me  (direct to my rating system if you don't know my rating system) a bit lack is just the slow pace in the beginning but this books is worth my time. Absolutely. Also please mind that this include sensitive content (trigger warning for you) with suicide and physical abuse, but it's not that severe, but still.. just in case.

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