Seth drowns. His life is no longer worth living. Everyone he loves has left him. So he tries to destroy the pain and the only way he can think of doing this is killing himself, because then everything will be peaceful, no more pain, no more suffering right? Wrong. Seth doesn't die; he wakes up in England – a place his family moved away from, ran away from. But after death he comes back here. So what is this deserted version of his old home town? Hell, the after-life, the end of the world? Seth doesn't understand and there's no one to help him. No friends, no family. The entire neighborhood is deserted, nothing but overgrown plants and weeds. Not a living thing in sight. He's alone, again.

More Than This wasn't quite what I was expecting. It was very philosophical, which I knew from the reviews on the cover. This was good because I'm really into philosophy and the philosophy that More Than This was discussing was the kind of philosophy that I'm interested in and that I think about a lot. Despite this, it was mainly handling a philosophical issue that I have tried to get my head around a lot recently which is 'is the world we live in the real world or is it our imagination?'. But although I'm still pondering over whether this is the real world, I didn't like Patrick Ness's idea of two different worlds. But it was interesting to read a book that had a slightly different idea to me but was still following the main idea that I have.

I didn't feel like the characters had strong enough personalities, I don't think there were enough characters and I didn't feel attached to any of them. And I think characters with good personalities and characters you can relate to are what make a good book a brilliant book.

I think it's becoming more and more common to find gay relationships in books and I think it's good because although some people think that everyone should like the opposite gender and that there's a "cure" for those who don't, there isn't. It's just how that person feels and they can't control whether they like boys or girls and they shouldn't feel like they have to. They shouldn't feel like they have to hide the fact that they like the same gender. I don't think I've ever read a book that's about a male gay relationship, if I have I don't remember. So it was a new experience for me and it was great to get an insight into a male gay relationship and their emotions, and I think Patrick Ness wrote that aspect of the book really well. I really got a feel for how Seth felt about Gudmund. I think this book is great to make you realise that men who like other men are just the same as men who like women. They have the same emotions and the same kind of fears and they should be treated equally. Because they are normal people, just like black people and people that don't live in the same country as us are normal people.

I was disappointed with the end and felt that it didn't feel quite finished and so I hope that, that means there's going to be a sequel. I felt that it was longer than it needed to be and quite repetitive. I would rate it about 4 stars.

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