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Review coming up. Need to catch my breath first.
***REVIEW UPDATE***
It is no secret that I loved The Knife of Never Letting Go. I loved it too much that I had a hard time moving on from the despairing deaths and loss of my favorite characters. This is also the reason why I felt I needed a breathing space before I read the sequel, never mind that The Knife has a very compelling cliff-hanger ending.
So, seven months after I finished The Knife of Never Letting Go, I felt I had enough escaping and pro ...more
***REVIEW UPDATE***
It is no secret that I loved The Knife of Never Letting Go. I loved it too much that I had a hard time moving on from the despairing deaths and loss of my favorite characters. This is also the reason why I felt I needed a breathing space before I read the sequel, never mind that The Knife has a very compelling cliff-hanger ending.
So, seven months after I finished The Knife of Never Letting Go, I felt I had enough escaping and pro ...more
I'm invested in the plot of this trilogy and will definitely read the third book to complete the story.
As YA dystopia goes, there's more substance here than in some books. There's real political motivations driving the characters and at least some effort at making the world internally consistent through the whole story. The villains are pretty deeply evil, but that's par for the course in YA novels.
Still, this book felt like a lot of nothing really happening. I didn't feel like the characters we ...more
As YA dystopia goes, there's more substance here than in some books. There's real political motivations driving the characters and at least some effort at making the world internally consistent through the whole story. The villains are pretty deeply evil, but that's par for the course in YA novels.
Still, this book felt like a lot of nothing really happening. I didn't feel like the characters we ...more
Wow. Intense!! That Mayor is just pure evil. I had to FORCE myself to stop last night (actually in the wee hours of the morning!) so I could get some sleep. Then today as I was just a few pages from finishing, I had to stop reading for a bit because I was too afraid the ending was going to be completely terrible and make me mad - or sad. As I said in my review of The Knife of Never Letting Go, Patrick Ness doesn't pull any punches. But this time I was expecting something similar to the first boo
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I often don't read all of a series immediately. In this case, I read the first book nearly 3 years ago, and that was a real mistake. I had a lot of trouble at the beginning of this one keeping track of who was who and trying to remember events in the past that were casually referred to without much explanation. In other words, the author didn't pay enough attention to bringing in readers who might pick this book up without its predecessor. In fact, I'm not sure yet whether critical information a
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This series was built up and highly recommended. Sometimes I hate that because then your expectations are too high. I think the series is ok and I am attached to the characters so I'll read the last book but it definitely hasn't lived up to the hype.
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