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The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1)

Patrick Ness

Start date: February 1, 2016

Finish date: February 29, 2016

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Aug 18, 2019 Angela Blount rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: sci-fi, ya, cliffhanger-letdown

An upper Middle-Grade light Sci-fi, futuristic in premise whilst otherwise low-tech and flight-based survivalist in practice. Likely appealing to fans of Maze Runner.

The story is told in first-person, exclusively from the perspective of soon-to-be 13-year-old Todd Hewitt. (Regardless of how you end up feeling about the plot and premise, you will not soon forget Todd's name. Because the one-dimensional villain of this tale repeats his first and last name ad nauseum.) The writing is simple and se ...more

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Jun 28, 2012 Sydney rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: books-i-own, read-for-school, dystopian, trilogy-or-series, could-not-put-down, made-me-lol, made-me-cry, violence-to-the-max, male-pov, science-fiction

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Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown. His birthday is coming and he will take his place among the men of his community: a community of only men, where each can hear the others thoughts. The inhabitants of Prentisstown, man and animal, have Noise: a continual stream of thoughts and images projected to everyone around. There is no stopping or hiding your Noise, and there is no way to hide from it, it is just a way of life. But when Todd stumbles upon a ho See more of my reviews at Pika Pages

Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown. His birthday is coming and he will take his place among the men of his community: a community of only men, where each can hear the others thoughts. The inhabitants of Prentisstown, man and animal, have Noise: a continual stream of thoughts and images projected to everyone around. There is no stopping or hiding your Noise, and there is no way to hide from it, it is just a way of life. But when Todd stumbles upon a hole in the Noise, things begin to change in Todd's life and he finds himself on the run from all of the people he's ever known. He discovers along the way that all he's known to be true may not be.

The book starts out on a slightly confusing note. You are tossed straight into Todd’s world and that threw me off a bit. But don’t fret, just keep reading and all of your questions are answered in due time. Most of them at least, it is a series, so there are a few things left for the next book.. The author’s writing is very powerful. Ness gets across what is needed in a seemingly minimalistic way. There is no fluff in this story, everything that is said is important in some way. I wouldn't exactly recommend this book to the casual reader. If you are just looking for a quick, easy read, this is not it. I would recommend this book to someone who loves adventure, and who is not afraid of a not-so-happy ending.

This book took me on an emotional roller coaster. I laughed and I teared up, with not even two pages in between. It took me a little bit to get into this book but once I did, it was done in two days. It is one of those books where it seems like thing just get worse and worse. One bad thing after another happens with only a few breaths of fresh air in between before the feeling of despair returns. But this book was so good, even with all of that. And even though I know this series will not have a happy or even slightly joyful ending, because that is just the type of books these are, I want to get to the next book so bad! ...more

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Aug 10, 2021 Vikas rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: owned, nbtr, read-2021, special-edition

WHAT!!! What the hell just happened, now I will have to start reading the next book in the series to get the answers rather than continuing with the other books I am reading but that's the fun. This was a wonderful world imagined by Mr. Ness and what a world. I had seen these books a very long time ago and the title was the first thing that had caught my eye and then when I saw these gorgeous 10th-anniversary editions then I had to get these. The event that motivated me to start reading this ser ...more

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Sep 14, 2014 Linda Bakker-Zwakhals rated it really liked it

Wow what a ride this was! Especially the last couple of chapters. The book lost some of its fast pace in the middle, but eventually it picked up again. Some really good twists were bidden in this story. Can wait to read book two

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