Sometimes, making the decision to get up in the morning is the bravest possible thing you can do. Their problems are obviously so much tougher because LIFE OR DEATH except, well, they aren’t.
In Rest of Us, the ‘Chosen Ones’ are mockingly called indie kids and they’re always saving the world from some *eye-roll* apocalypse, making a mess for everyone else to clear up, loving overdramatically, and hogging the spotlight. You’re not special you’re extraordinary.” *(and yes, I did recite that from memory.)* I saw you last night, and I see you working here today. I see more than anybody realises because they’re not watching me. To live so near to the spotlight and never step in it. * “They’ll never know how tough it is, Dawnie, to be the one who isn’t chosen. * If you’ve never seen it, watch the clip now, it’s all kinds of emotional. There’s a well-known scene in the last series where Xander, one of Buffy’s inner circle talks about how it feels not to be the chosen one. Buffy was hand-picked to fight the vampires, demons and forces of darkness, to burn bright and (probably) die young. So true story, I am a major supernatural/paranormal show fangirl, and my favourite of all time is Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Again.īecause sometimes there are problems bigger than this week’s end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.Įven if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions…ġ: Flipping the ‘Chosen One’ trope on its head was ingenious and gave me all the fangirly, nostalgic feels. What if you’re like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. The one who’s supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? So let’s get some blurb up in hither and we’ll talk about 5 reasons I gave The Rest of Us Just Live Here 5 stars!
I’m so glad I did because it lived up to ALL the expectations. So I gave myself a little pep talk and opened the first page, and well. Well this summer, I thought, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. The thing is, once I actually got my hands on the book, I started to feel dread that it wouldn’t live up to my expectations, so it became a kind of ritual when picking my next read to go along my bookshelf, give the gorgeous cover a little stroke, and then move on, picking something else. Plus, Patrick Ness is a wizard with words so you, know, IT HAD TO BE GOOD RIGHT? Every sentence had me doing a little fist pump and a not entirely dignified flail. Reading the blurb, it felt like it was written for me. The Rest of Us Just Live Here is a book that’s been on my to-read list since before it was even published.
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