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

Patrick Ness

Start date: August 1, 2017

Finish date: August 30, 2017

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Aug 14, 2017 F rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2017

The dog was my favourite.
Enjoyed this more than i expected.

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May 12, 2013 Cathie rated it liked it

Shelves: 2013-reads, bb-botm, young-adult, dystopia, survival, science-fiction, reading-challenge-botm, post-apocalyptic, 2013-june

Noise. There is a lot of noise. And chaos. This is not a chick light read; it is a testosterone read. (I seem to be in midst of these type of reads lately.)

There is action and adventure and cruelty and loss. By the first few chapters I was so tired of all the noise in this poor kid's head that I just wanted to yell "Shut up already!" Imagine the poor kid in the story (or now in the movie, as apparently it has been optioned to be produced, although I have no idea how they will convey all the nois ...more

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Feb 12, 2017 Emily Just Emily*~* rated it it was ok

I absolutely totally disliked the writing style of this book. There were WAY too many run on sentences and ands and continuous repetitive things that didn't need to be.
The story itself would have been WAY more exciting otherwise, but it also got repetitive.
I finished it because I wanted to know what happened to Todd and Viola at the end, the end was the worst part.....Way too much cliffhanging going on, I get it, we need to read the 2nd story....but do we want to?
I love Patrick Ness, I do. I wil ...more

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Aug 04, 2019 Audrey marked it as duplicates

*Goodreads Duplicate*

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Dec 15, 2013 Mom2triplets04 rated it really liked it

Shelves: books-i-own-read, audio-listened

4 1/2 Stars. Recommend Audio Book for this book. It's very fast paced and the audio book is amazing. Leaves you on a cliffhanging wanting you to grab the next book immediately. Dropped down 1/2 star because of the spelling and cursing which made it a bit hard to get used to. ...more

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