Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold & irreverent novel powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable Award-winning writer Patrick Ness's bold & irreverent novel powerfully asks what if you weren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies or the soul-eating ghosts or whatever this new thing is with the blue lights & the death? What if you were like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate & go to prom & maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes & blows up the high school Again Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world & sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life Even if your best friend might just be the God of mountain lions An exceptional novel from the author praised by John Green as an insanely beautiful writer