The Rest of Us Just Live Here is an amazing book that is centered around four people who aren't exactly the main protagonists of any other story. They aren't the chosen ones, they just happen to live in the same world that all the weird things happen in. I have never read a book like this before but Patrick Ness pulled it off well. The chapters are engaging and even tell you what is happening with the Indie kids (they are typically the ones to do all of the heroics and world saving). However the book just focuses on smaller problems in the life of Mikey and his friends.

 

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What if you aren't the Chosen One? 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? 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. Again. Because 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. Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions.