More Than This by Patrick Ness

[Kritika]

Calling all Patrick Ness fans! Does anyone want to read his newest book, More Than This, with me?

The synopsis sounds incredible, and Ness is one of my favorite authors, so I'm ridiculously excited to start reading and it would be awesome to share the excitement with people!

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Oh. My. Gosh! Is this one out already? I'm obsessed with Ness too!! I'd love to read it with you! Have you started already? Perhaps post about it in the general Buddy Reads thread too to get more people interested. I probably won't be ready to read it for a little while still, are you OK to start in a couple weeks or are you ready to go now?

[Kritika]

I'm good whenever! I flipped out last night when I saw it in my library catalogue and checked it out immediately (ebook) but I'd rather read this one as a paper book. Better for savoring haha
Do you want to start in October then?

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Aww are you sure you can wait that long? I'd love to read it with you!!

[Cindee]

I'm in too

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Yay!!

[Kritika]

Yeah it'll be a week or two before I can buy myself a copy, so I can wait! Like I said, I'd rather read this as a physical book than an ebook because I tend to skim ebooks and I don't want to skim this.

[Tracy]

Aw man, I will be on hold at the library for ever!

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Awesome, sounds good!!

[Jenny, Always smiling! :-D]

I might join in, too, depending if I can get a copy in time :)

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Yes, join Jenny!

[Michael]

I've got an ARC of this but haven't started. Let me know when you guys are starting...got lots of books to read in the meantime

[Kritika]

Awesome, the more the merrier!

[Karen’s Library]

I have this one on hold at my elibrary and hope to have it soon. I'll join in! :-)

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Yay!

[Kritika]

My copy has supposedly shipped but my dorm mailroom doesn't have it ready yet. AGH

I'm going to try again today...fingers crossed!

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

My toes are crossed too!

[Jenny, Always smiling! :-D]

I should have my copy by Friday!

[Kritika]

IT'S HERE!
Just in time for October, too :)
I'm in the middle of Mistborn: The Final Empire right now, so Friday sounds like a good day to start.

SO EXCITED :D

[Cindee]

hope to be done the ask and the answer by Friday!

[Tracy]

Whoo Hoo! Got this from the library today.

[Caitlin]

My library just got the copies in. I'm hoping they will be registered and handed out in time!

[Jenny, Always smiling! :-D]

Got my copy in the mail today!!!

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Yay! I'm still hoping Kindle will drop the crazy ebook price. Just give me a dollar you greedy publisher!

[Jenny, Always smiling! :-D]

HAHAHA!!! Sorry, David :( How much is it? I paid $13.50ish for the hardcover

[Cindee]

I don't know if I will be ready for it on Friday just starting the other buddy read Crown of Midnight.

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Jenny wrote: "HAHAHA!!! Sorry, David :( How much is it? I paid $13.50ish for the hardcover"

Um either $10.99 or $11.99, I personally believe $9.99 should be the cap for ebooks, but that's just me! That's a great price for the hardcover, at least you have something tangible to hold and display!

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Cindee wrote: "I don't know if I will be ready for it on Friday just starting the other buddy read Crown of Midnight."

Me too! I definitely will need a bit longer before I can start this one. We might have to push it to mid-Octobber if that's OK with everyone?

[Cindee]

that works for me! I still am in chaos mode would love to read monsters of men, plus I really want to read the divergent series before I read book three!

[Kritika]

sure, we can push it to later in the month. Oh my goodness that lovely glossy hardcover is staring me in the face - the temptation!

[Jenny, Always smiling! :-D]

David wrote: "Jenny wrote: "HAHAHA!!! Sorry, David :( How much is it? I paid $13.50ish for the hardcover"

Um either $10.99 or $11.99, I personally believe $9.99 should be the cap for ebooks, but that's just ..."

Its a really cool book, I'm so glad I bought the hardcover! I'll show it off in my book haul this weekend.

*BIG SIGH* I can wait, I suppose. LOL ;) No, really, its fine, I always have plenty to read!

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

LOL! If you guys want to jump ahead and buddy read together, that's cool, don't want to hold you back! We can always catch up and chat about it later :) We could buddy read in pairs lol, Jenny and Kritika and me and Cindee ;) And Tracy and Caitlin could join whichever group they'd like! Or we can all wait, up to you guys!!

[Cindee]

whatever works for the group, I'm in. I definitely want to read this book! I've just got a few I would like to finish first, and it seems like after you read a Patrick Ness book you are going to have trouble getting into anything else. I read some of Crown at Midnight last night and I still couldn't get Viola and Tom out of my head. But I think Crown at Midnight will be great I'm just having separation anxiety right now lol. Tonight will be better I know it lol.

[Jenny, Always smiling! :-D]

LOL, Its fine, I will wait for you David! :)

[Tracy]

That sound good David just let me know when you guys start. I am also reading Crown of Midnight on and I love this book! I had to put it on hold because I need to finish Dexter's Final Cut, it's due back at the library.

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Ok cool, thank youuuu!!!!

[Kritika]

Ok, I'll start rereading Ender's Game while I wait - I've been meaning to do that before the movie comes out. It's been years...

[Tracy]

I have finished Crown of Midnight (what a book!) and now I am going to start this one.

[Kritika]

I'll probably start reading on Friday. I'm in the middle of another book at the moment.

I've been waiting so long, I'm kind of scared to read it now! I'm sure it will be amazing, but I just hope I'm not hyping it too much in my head.

[Jenny, Always smiling! :-D]

I'm still working on Monsters, so I'm going to a wait a bit :) Enjoy!

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

I'm still fighting through Monsters, which is really long. Once I'm done with that, I can start on this one :) But feel free to start, and we'll just catch up :)

[Kritika]

Monsters is BRILLIANT. I can't say enough good things about it. And the ending is absolutely perfect. Prepare for minor heart attacks though!

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Just got my copy of More Than This!

[Cindee]

I'm reading monsters of men still but then I should be ready for more than this....and then on to reread of Divergent....woot woot almost here!

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Monsters of Men! Eeep!! Best. Book. Ever!

OK, I started this one last night! 15% in, VERY interesting :) (view spoiler)[ It's different than A Monster Calls in that Ness distracted the reader from the truth with the "monster". In this one, Ness is boldly showing us that there is some major reveal coming at some point, but giving us very little to go on. I have so many theories! I'm not going to share them though, as if some of them are wrong, they may be future book ideas for me lol!! I'm wondering what the flashbacks really have to do with anything. And what happened to his brother? Some kind of traumatic brain injury, clearly, although I wonder if it was Seth who somehow caused it. And how did he end up in the ocean in the first place? Lots of questions and not a lot of answers...it's sort of dystopian, but not lol! (hide spoiler)]

[Kritika]

YES I'm glad you enjoyed Monsters! It's one of my absolute favorite books :)
I'm starting More Than This tonight. I will update you all tomorrow!

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

Cool beans! I didn't know you were as obsessed with Chaos Walking series as me! That's awesome!

[Cindee]

do you know what I hate....I hate I like the mayor....what the?? I despised him in the second book. also I hate how viola doesn't feel close to Todd cause of his noise.....oh wait. this group is for More Than This....seriously I should be reading the chaos series with someone! its amazing and so much to talk about. on top of that when I try to read another story I'm like"well why can't you hear his noise for Pete's sake!?" lol. an amazing series! it reminds me of the hunger games and the maze runner triology....books that get in your head and don't leave for awhile.

[Jenny, Always smiling! :-D]

I'm sure there is a thread in this group somewhere for Chaos Walking. There is no way David would not make a thread for it! hehe

[David, Mr. Blue Eyes; He's the Best--Ain't no lie!! ;)]

I think there's a thread for The Knife of Never Letting Go where we pretty much just rave about the whole series lol!

23% now! (view spoiler)[ Wow. So his brother Owen was kidnapped, I think? Whatever happened to him really messed him up and for some reason his mom blamed him for it, even though he was only 8. I have a feeling there's going to be a lot more to this book! (hide spoiler)]