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Review Updat: I just noticed that Patrick Ness chose only one design for the cover for all editions and versions, and it doesn't take an FBI agent to divulge the deepest, darkest secrets of the mysterious book cover, and to why Patrick Ness has never changed it.

I feel like I've been severely beaten up by an Arnold Schwarzenegger, I mean, I'm seriously sore all over, and I thought a human being can't have a sore brain, but oh, there's always more to everything.

I've never thought that an inanimate object as innocent as a book would actually have this effect on me. I've been flipping through the pages and every page felt like a punch in the stomach, face, nose, even a poke in the eye! I'm beaten up and I like it.

I didn't expect this book to go like that, I didn't expect to enter such a game, all pixels and Super Mario-ish things. I was fighting to understand or to help the characters understand what was going on but even when I did Patrick Ness would simply prove us all wrong, would send a blow that'd throw away every stupid conclusion because it's not it, it's always more than you think always more than you read!

The writing was mesmerizing, wicked and beautiful. The gay main character was a soft, down to earth and broken human being who is loved at first sight, I loved him and his soft confused voice. The characters were so REAL, the only real thing about this book but you wouldn't know where they really do belong to.

I think the idea of the book is pretty clear, but it's been beautifully put in such a wonderful/incredible way that you just want the book to go on forever, you would want to know the more and the more and the more. You'd want more than this. Always.

Nothing you'll ever read in this book is right, nor wrong for that matter. Unless Patrick Ness reveals what this book really is, we won't know for sure and we all will stick to our weak conclusions.

No two persons ever read the same More Than This.