If anyone were to ask me what More Than This is about, I’d say existentialism. Every answer inevitably leads to new questions. Rather, because existentialist questions somehow can never be answered to the full satisfaction of anyone. Not because it lacks clarity of thought or writing. When I was done reading, I felt gobsmacked. What’s going on? And why is it that whenever he closes his eyes, he falls prey to vivid, agonizing 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… But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned. 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. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. classified as Science Fiction, Young Adult Ī boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him.
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