The Rest of Us Just Live Here
Summary
This adventurous, young adult Sci-Fi novel about friendship, love, self-perspective and superpowers follows the almost ordinary life of Mikey how struggles to accept that he is ‘just’ an average kid in a small town. Mikey is unsure, whether his life is worth living because he has not done anything extraordinary or achieved something great in his life yet and there are only a few weeks left until he and his friends Nathan, Henna, Mel (Mike’s sister) and Jared will graduate. However, things around the friends are getting rather supernatural: ‘the indie kids’ of their school seem to have hidden powers, which they use to fight evil creatures like zombies, vampires and soul-eating ghosts. Will Mikey find the extraordinary in his ordinary life, get a chance to have an impact and realise that the people around him care?
Critical edition
Ness, Patrick. The Rest of Us Just Live Here. Quill Tree, 2015. 336 pp., ISBN 9780062403162