This is one heck of a coming-of-age novel, I can tell you.Ī few warnings: it is violent and raw, there are deaths (some are very upsetting), and it ends on a huge HUGE cliffhanger (as this is evidently the first book in the Chaos Walking series). They manage to communicate enough to patch up the girl’s small injuries. She doesn’t speak, so he’s not sure if she understands him. Todd and Manchee escape, only to come face to face with the hole in the Noise. Another is the idea of knowing an individual’s thoughts without the Noise. Todd is about to stab Aaron with the hunting knife, but Aaron is attacked by a crocodile. One of Ness’s many literary feats is the way physical hardships mirror the emotional ones. (And, by the way, Ness’s presentation of the Noise of animals is absolutely amazing.) Todd’s resulting journey is harrowing, moving, disturbing, and enthralling. Without really understanding quite why Todd is forced to flee Prentisstown, the only place he has ever known, with his dog Manchee. This Noise, a brilliant concept, is superbly evoked by Ness in all its hellishness. According to Todd, the last boy of the settlement of Prentisstown, years earlier an illness resulted in all males being able to hear each others’ thoughts. The Knife of Never Letting Go is a dystopic novel involving settlers who created a New World because they wanted a simpler life (a la those Mayflower passengers of our yore). I casually started reading it and then was unable to stop till I was done. After reading that review of Patrick Ness’s The Knife of Never Letting GoI requested an ARC from the publisher.
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