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I *love* this book. It takes all of the YA tropes and turns them on their head and it also gets in some loving jabs at some of the YA trappings we've seen over the years. The quick summaries at the beginning of each chapter are amazing; Ness manages to condense the plot of a clichéd YA novel/YA supernatural/fantasy TV show into a few short sentences. What's also great is how Ness portrays the lives of Mikey and his friends. Their lives are just as compelling as the indie kids' lives. If you're a fan of Buffy, and ever wondered what life was like on the Hellmouth outside of Buffy's circle of friends, then this book is for you.
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A new YA novel from novelist Patrick Ness, author of the Carnegie Medal- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winning A Monster Calls and the critically acclaimed Chaos Walking trilogy, The Rest of Us Just Live Here is a bold and irreverent novel that powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable.

What if you aren't the Chosen One? 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?

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. Again.

Because 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.

Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions.

Taking this to the wrapped book exchange for the Calgary BookCrossing (belated) Christmas party.

This is my selection from the tea party and I was happy to see the author was a favourite; Patrick Ness.. Thank you.

I'm sorry this book lingered on the shelf so long because once I began to read I could not put it down. A quick novel examining the trials of teenagers and the meaning of life with just a smidge of the weird to keep it YA normal.

Taken to the Calgary BC Meetup today.

Picked up at this month's Calgary Bookcrossing meetup. Looking forward to the read!

Sometimes it takes a really long time for me to figure out what's actually going on in a book. This one took me longer than I should admit. Man - High school told from the perspective of the not-so-special characters! Genius!

Will be brought to Calgary Bookcrossing for the next reader.

Picked up at a recent bookcrossing meeting.

Taken to the July meeting! I had to admit I had some trepidation about reading another Patrick Ness, but I read two in the past month and my heart has survived. In fact, this was pretty great.

To the finder:
Calgary has an active group of BookCrossers that meet to swap books and discuss book crossing every second Saturday of the month at 11am at Cravings Market on Fairmount Drive SE. We always love to meet new crossers, so please join us any time you like!

Picked this up at the Calgary BookCrossing meeting. We had 10 BookCrossers and lots of books.

Really fun look at what it would be like to be just outside the action. Great characters!

Are you in the Calgary area and interested in meeting up with other Calgary BookCrossers? Please check out our facebook group, "BookCrossing Calgary" for details on how. Meeting are held on the second Saturday of every month starting at 11am. Location is unknown, please PM me for information. New Crossers are always welcome.

Taking this to the Calgary meet up group.

Caught at local meetup Sept 2019 - really looking forward to this one. Huge Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan, expecting to enjoy this book!

Loved this book- great for anyone who loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Lent to friend Rochelle L.

Re-captured from friend RL who loved it!

releasing for the next reader - definitely a book I strongly recommend.

Was passed this at a book get together. Loved this book! I really liked the concept. Got a little overloaded with the romance jealousy when some simple communication would have solved that whole issue, but otherwise found the characters interesting and the story had a good flow to it.

Thanks for the great read!

Returned to another bookcrosser