Friday 27 September 2013

Book Beginnings on Fridays (More Than This by Patrick Ness)




Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader and as she says the idea of this meme is for you to share the first sentence (or so) of the book you are reading, along with your initial thoughts about the sentence, impressions of the book, or anything else the opener inspires. Please remember to include the title of the book and the author's name. There's a linky list on the website and you can use #BookBeginnings on Twitter.

 

My book beginning: More Than This by Patrick Ness


Here is the boy drowning.
In these last moments, it's not the water that's finally done for him; it's the cold. It has bled all the energy from his body and contracted his muscles into a painful uselessness, no matter how much he fights to keep himself above the surface.He is strong, and young, nearly seventeen, but the wintry waves keep coming, each one seemingly larger than the last.

More Than This


I haven't read anything by Patrick Ness before but this one looks interesting and I managed to get near the front of the queue to borrow a copy from the library.


Book Blurb

A boy named 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 here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighbourhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. What’s going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonising memories that seem more real than the world around him? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this.

3 comments:

  1. That beginning grabbed my interest! I have The Knife of Letting Go on my kindle, but haven't gotten around to it. I do want to get this one also.

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  2. Sounds interesting.

    Elizabeth
    Silver's Reviews
    My Book Beginnings

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