My first book of Patrick Ness, and certainly not the last. What to say, I liked it. I didn't know what to expect and I was really pleasantly surprised. The book classifies as a young adult novel and this could put off some of the readers. I, on the other hand, read quite a lot YA novels, also because I have a younger sister, who buys books like crazy, mostly from the YA sector. When I started working in the bookshop, this one had a sign NEW, so I picked it up and read the description. And so it went on my reading list. Here is the description.
A boy called Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he is here? And where is this place?
Sometimes can be the YA novels more profound, meaningful, touching than books for adult readers and I don't want to miss some good books just because of their label. Would I reccomend this book to someone? I already did :)
"What I do know is that you give a human being a chance to be stupid and violent, then they're going to take it, every time. No matter where they are."
'"I don't belive in guardian angels," Regine says seriously. "Just people who are there for you and people who aren't." "Yes," Tomasz says. "Yes, I agree with this." "Just people," Seth says, finding he agrees, too.'
'No, life didn't always go how you tought it might. Sometimes it didn't make any sense at all. You 've just got to find a way to live there anyway, Seth thinks.'
(bookdepository.com)
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