The Rest of Us Just Live Here

by Patrick Ness

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness is a hilarious and compelling novel about finding the preternatural in the everyday. He follows the unglamorous and complicated lives of a group of high school seniors as they fumble through romantic relationships and tender friendships with the knowledge that the wider world is fast approaching. Ness takes the typical fantasy adventure with heroic teenagers and mythical adversaries and places it firmly in the backdrop, while he points out the intrigue in the mundane with wit and humour.