I've been waiting for this book for SO LONG and I finally got my hands on it and aaaaaaahhhhhhh it's everything I wanted it to be. 
 Every teens-fight-the-supernatural story has the other kids in the background--the kids who aren't the heroes; the ones who are noted as "the cashier was the girl from my math class" or "the waiter brought us a basket of cheesy toast. He's familiar--I'm pretty sure he goes to my school." But what are their stories? What's it like to live in the background of the major story? 
 The beginning of each chapter has a quick synopsis of what's happening in the main story--the "indie kids" fighting whatever evil has overtaken the town. In some ways these bits are mocking the genre, but it's a mocking that comes from a place of love--more of a gentle teasing about the tropes of teen genre fiction. ("Chapter the Second, in which indie kid Satchel writes a poem, and her mom and dad give her loving space to just feel what she needs to; then an indie kid named Dylan arrives at her house, terrified, to say that a mysterious glowing girl has informed him of the death of indie kid Finn; Satchel and Dylan comfort each other, platonically.") But there's plenty going on with the background kids (who are our actual main characters this time)--mental-health challenges, bad parents, minor god status, the usual. It's a basic coming-of-age story--coming to terms with the end of high school, with the way relationships are changing--with the added complication of knowing something weird is happening and not being involved in fixing it. 
 I love the way Ness explores and twists the stories we're accustomed to--pushing the supernatural story to the background here; subverting a post-apocalyptic landscape in More Than This. I love the characters and the writing; I love the feel of this book--the sense of seeing teens struggle to live their normal lives when there's very little normal about them. 
 Loved everything about this book except the US cover.