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Really excellent, fast paced dystopian adventure. Can't wait to read the next one.
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I read The Knife of Never Letting Go as an Addicted to YA Book of the Month in 2014. It was hard to get into the rhythm of the written dialect, and I was unsure how to process all the large "noise" fonts or the concept of noise in general. (Noise refers to the audible and visual projection of all males' thoughts which can then be heard/seen by all those around them.) With the whole swamp aspect, I thought we were i ...more
I read The Knife of Never Letting Go as an Addicted to YA Book of the Month in 2014. It was hard to get into the rhythm of the written dialect, and I was unsure how to process all the large "noise" fonts or the concept of noise in general. (Noise refers to the audible and visual projection of all males' thoughts which can then be heard/seen by all those around them.) With the whole swamp aspect, I thought we were i ...more
I started loving this book - seemed interesting and unique - and ended by hating this book. I almost stopped an hour away from the end at a certain needless, cruel death, but continued for more bad-guy rising-from-the-surely-dead-this-time, more dull girl that wasn't worth the sacrifice, more ungrateful and bit stupid main character. more running. then stopping. then running. then a fight. then running.
Honestly, once they killed the best character then left behind any other interesting ones, (p ...more
Honestly, once they killed the best character then left behind any other interesting ones, (p ...more
Nov 02, 2009
Nadine in NY Jones
marked it as did-not-finish
Shelves:
dystopian-and-post-apocalyptic,
young-adult
from the NPR poll of best young adult fiction
I'm not sure about this one. I read the first few chapters, and while it's ... intriguing ... the "creative" spelling is getting on my last nerve. And the boy hits his dog too often. ...more
I'm not sure about this one. I read the first few chapters, and while it's ... intriguing ... the "creative" spelling is getting on my last nerve. And the boy hits his dog too often. ...more
CRAZY good, although be warned that the style is sometimes a little rough going.
This was really good. But the ending is very abrupt, dragging you into book 2. Argggh.
Lexile 860L
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16.0
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16.0
Nov 04, 2008
Tracyene
marked it as to-read
Aug 23, 2012
Soelo
marked it as to-read-series-new
Oct 22, 2012
Kami Smith
marked it as to-read
Oct 26, 2012
Sarah
marked it as to-read
Sep 23, 2013
Patrick
marked it as to-read
Nov 15, 2013
Dana Arbelaez
marked it as to-read
Mar 29, 2016
Amy Rosa
marked it as to-read
