Super Short Summary

More Than This by Patrick Ness follows Seth Wearing, a teenage boy who dies by suicide and wakes up in a strange, desolate version of his childhood hometown. As he explores what he believes to be his personal hell, he learns that humanity entered an alternate online reality to escape an ecological collapse. Seth meets other teenagers who also "died" and together, they evade a machine that seeks to reinsert them into the simulation while confronting their own traumas and the nature of reality. Topics include suicide, suicidal ideation, domestic abuse, anti-LGBTQ+ biases, and physical violence.