More Than This by Patrick Ness

          In the book More Than This by Patrick Ness, the main character Seth, bottles up his emotions for most of the book. Filled with guilt, confusion, and sadness affects him. His flashbacks make it much more difficult than it needs to be to get over heartbreak and the guilt clawing at the back of his head. 


        Seth deals goes through with a lot of sadness and pain throughout the story - Mostly when he gets in his head and remembers all the horrible things that happened before his suicide. Seth keeps having flashbacks to moments where his boyfriend and himself were together. All the memories are vast but in the end, he remembers why he killed himself. His last straw was when he found out Gudmund wasn't even technically his at all. Seth's life was crashing down little by little and he was miserable. "I thought Gudmund was my more. It didn't matter how crap everything else was." Guilt. Seth is filled with guilt for what happened to brother. The idea that his parents blamed him for everything was always in Seth's head. "I'm going to let you choose. I'm going to let you choose which one of the two of you comes with me Seth." "I thought if I said he could take Owen, I'd be able to raise the alarm  better." His thoughts eat at him until he speaks what he's feeling. But, there's still confusion. Seth doesn't know where he is or why he's there, and neither do the other two people there - Tomasz and Regine. Waking up bandaged in a coffin isn't ideal. They all got hit - or shot - in a certain part of their head that kept them away from everyone else - everyone else is also in a coffin but in a prison near Seth's house.

     
        I, myself was confused for a bit by this book but not for an immense period of time. The author portrayed all these emotions and more very strongly. The characters face difficulties but manage. The flashbacks helped a lot because after them, the characters show how they feel about remembering certain moments.