The Rest of Us Just Live Here

Ever felt like you're just ordinary in a supernatural world? Like you have more than enough to deal with without random blue lights, zombies and ghosts that want to eat your soul?

The Rest of Us Just Live Here explores that it’s like when you aren’t the one to save the world, you just live in it. Mikey, the main character, just wants to make it to his graduation. With troubled parents, a best friend who is worshipped by cats and OCD tendencies that just keep getting worse; making it to the end of the week is a victory.

Patrick Ness, a multiple award winning writer, dives deep into what is really means to be a young adult. You don’t have to be extraordinary to make a difference. In a writing world that revolves around dystopia, extremes and beautiful misfits who aren’t really misfits at all, Ness weaves the normal teenage struggle. To be loved, to be accepted, to stop from falling off the wagon. His characters remind you of yourself or someone you knew. Never undermining the audience, the story lets you have some fantastical elements but what keeps you reading are the characters, their successes and failures and the true belief that everything does get better. How can come someone ordinary save the town? They can’t, but that’s not the point. Saving the world gets overrated; watching the world be saved makes a great story.

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https://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/obsessive-compulsive-disorder

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