![]() Much has been made of this book’s fantasy trope angle, even as the main characters are stressed to be absolutely, completely normal and average. The ones who’d die not because of destiny, but from being at the wrong place at the wrong time. The ones walking down the hallways standing at lockers hanging out after school. Instead of writing a novel about, well, the Chosen One, he’s written about the characters most of us would, in all likelihood, actually be: the background ones. ![]() In The Rest of Us Just Live Here, Patrick Ness spoofs “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and all the Chosen One tropes. Every new Patrick Ness book has involved verbal caps lock. My co-workers and I have fought over ARCs of his subsequent books they’ve been passed along with strict timelines involved. I am a huge Patrick Ness fan, ever since The Knife of Never Letting Go came out in the UK and Ireland back in 2008. ![]()
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