Free by Patrick Ness

Free by Patrick Ness
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Facing certain social issues from a youth narrative is imperative in the face of that awareness and naturalization of the different about the mediocrity of the people.

And I say "imperative" because it is in youthful ages where the patterns of what we will be in adulthood are set. Youth is exposed to the vertigo of the Internet, of social networks. Access to knowledge at a price that is too high at times. The best but also the worst is open access for all children and young people who may at some point enter the virtual world.

It is not this book of patrick ness, Libre, a novel about youth and social networks, I only present it as an introduction, as a necessary sensitization towards real life characters such as Adam Thorn in this narrative proposal.

Good old Adam is at that difficult point where, no matter how young and vital you are, you suddenly feel that the world is upon you, with that point of suffocating reality. The ups and downs of love that end up moving towards a forced forgetfulness or lack of love, family situations derived from their sexual condition, social maladjustment as a direct and exclusive consequence of the non-acceptance of the different ...

Everything conspires for Adam to reach that heavy and serious burden of reality that he has to live for being what he is, for being what he is.

But Patrick Ness is a writer of the fantastic, as he well exposed in A monster comes to see me. A fantasy of his that connects with the emotions from the depths, distilling humanity in every detail, in that sublimation, in that resilience in the face of the most ignominious daily life.

Fantasy is also fear. Monsters, wolves, ghosts live with us in a more prosaic way, but what is clear is that we are all exposed to fear the consequences that fear ends up leading to phobias and hatred.

From the lake near Adam's town, the underworld sends a wicked character, perhaps it is a being capable of smelling that fear and hatred.

At that moment is when Adam can become the hero, the only immaculate being in that society vitiated by fears turned into resentments about everything alien and different.

A great story, emotional and certainly conscientious.

You can now buy the novel Free, Patrick Ness's new book, here:

Free by Patrick Ness
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