Patrick Ness’ writing style is freaking beautiful. “He was the thing the world had suffered from most in her four billion years of existence: a stupid man with power.” – Burn, Patrick Ness. It does not have that emotional punch that A Monster Calls and Monster of Men have but it has cardinal topics on racial inequality and sexual orientation and I wish Patrick Ness had veered in that direction of the story instead of what has actually transpired in the story but we will speak more on that later on. Although this novel is not his most immeasurable work to date, it is still entertaining and fun.

A prophecy that involves a deadly assassin, a cult of dragon worshippers, two FBI agents in hot pursuit-and somehow, Sarah Dewhurst herself.īefore we commence this review, I would like to state that Patrick Ness is one of my favourite authors of all time. He has arrived at the farm with a prophecy on his mind. Sarah can’t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn’t have a soul, but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe.īecause the dragon knows something she doesn’t. The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though.

Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to. It's a very enjoyable read, if not the most enjoyable I have had all year.On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he’d hired to help on the farm… Other critics have claimed the dialogue in this novel is too long to enjoy, but I think that it is needed. The slow start of the novel will make impatient readers not continue, even with the intriguing vagueness of it. Out of ten, I would rate this book 9 out of 10.

It was unlike anything I had ever read, with a cross between any genres you can imagine: I have never read a dystopian-fantasy-romance-philosophical-action-drama and never think I will again. It's hard to imagine when a book last stayed with me for so long that warm, excited feeling of extreme satisfaction that you feel when a novel has affected you so positively, yet More Than This by Patrick Ness was definitely one of those. This isn't, though, your standard action-packed adventure where you take an exhilarating ride and finish when the hero gets the girl and they live happily ever after – this is a coming-of-age and deeply philosophical novel with prominent themes and strong messages to young adults. It's a long book, almost five hundred pages, but being such a page-turning masterpiece it did not feel like very long at all.

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