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Authors

Kiersten Carr

Keywords

Excellent, Young Adult, Patrick Ness, High School, Teenagers, Fantasy

Document Type

Book Review

Abstract

The Rest Of Us Just Live Here is not about the usual "indie kids” who occasionally team up to fight vampires or soul-eating ghosts or whatever it is this time. Instead, we follow Mikey, who just wants make it to graduation without the school blowing up (again) and is far too concerned with making sure his sister is eating, struggling with his own anxiety disorder, and staying out of the spotlight of his mom’s political campaign to get mixed up with the indie kids and their quest to stop the mysterious “Immortals,” whose shtick seems to be possessing people and blowing things up with creepy blue light. As Mikey fights to maintain his relationships with his friends and deal with his worries about the future (and the Immortal’s rising body-count), he discovers that people care about him even when he is imperfect and that everyone struggles with the extraordinary, even if they’re never on the front lines fighting an extra-dimensional threat. In the end, the high school does get blown up, but Mikey and his friends manage to safely graduate before it happens.

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