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kareilaBackdating this to sneak it in under the wire for 2015:
I bought this book as a Christmas present for a friend and couldn't put it down. It offers a world where seemingly random supernatural occurrences kill off a group of teenagers every few years, but only the teenagers who are too cool for school, here called "indie kids." The heroes of this story are not indie kids; they struggle with inner demons in the place of explicit ones, and are preoccupied with graduating from high school and figuring out what they will do afterward. When they realize that another supernatural event is happening, they frequently comment that they just want to get through graduation before the high school gets blown up. Again.
It's not that they are jaded - when their paths occasionally cross those of the indie kids and their opponents, they generally try to do the right thing and help where they can. It's just that everyone realizes it's not their fight. And they have plenty of other things to worry about between schoolwork, friendships, potential love interests, family drama, mental health issues, and the fact that one of them has divine powers...
I've loved both of the Patrick Ness novels I've read so far and definitely look forward to reading more.
I bought this book as a Christmas present for a friend and couldn't put it down. It offers a world where seemingly random supernatural occurrences kill off a group of teenagers every few years, but only the teenagers who are too cool for school, here called "indie kids." The heroes of this story are not indie kids; they struggle with inner demons in the place of explicit ones, and are preoccupied with graduating from high school and figuring out what they will do afterward. When they realize that another supernatural event is happening, they frequently comment that they just want to get through graduation before the high school gets blown up. Again.
It's not that they are jaded - when their paths occasionally cross those of the indie kids and their opponents, they generally try to do the right thing and help where they can. It's just that everyone realizes it's not their fight. And they have plenty of other things to worry about between schoolwork, friendships, potential love interests, family drama, mental health issues, and the fact that one of them has divine powers...
I've loved both of the Patrick Ness novels I've read so far and definitely look forward to reading more.
