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

Patrick Ness

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Oct 09, 2015 Book Concierge rated it did not like it

Shelves: religion, audio, series, library, concierge, dogs, dystopia, science-fiction

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ZERO stars

In New World things are different. Animals can talk. Men can hear each other’s “NOISE.” Todd Hewitt is just a month from his 13th birthday, when he’ll become a man, and share the secret of the odd, isolated settlement – Prentisstown – he calls home. But a chance discovery results in his fleeing for his life, accompanied only by his dog, Manchee.

Todd is many ways a typical young teen – full of anxiety about growing up, certain he knows much more than ...more

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Jan 26, 2020 Scott Shjefte rated it liked it · review of another edition

Pain, coming of age story, Pain, growing disappointment, Pain, being lost within one's self, Pain, secrets and adult cults, Pain, death, Pain, sorrow, Pain, loss of hope, Pain, so the author continues for hundreds of pages and it does not stop EVER. The persecuted martyrs perspective of the author seems to be one of suffering to achieve the reward of pain. Read this to the end and if you identify with the characters you too will experience Suffering and Pain. What answer to all this the pain cou ...more

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Dec 02, 2014 Nancy rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, ya, sci-fi

I hadn't expected to enjoy this book as much as I did. It was a real page turner. At first I thought I would struggle with the language - Todd, the narrator, is not educated and as it is written in the first person there are odd spellings and turns of phrase. But I got used to it and barely noticed it by the end. I loved the developing relationship between Todd and Viola, and I absolutely loved Manchee. Throughout you got a true sense of the panic and exhaustion as they all run from the army whi ...more

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Mar 11, 2019 Kahlia rated it it was ok · review of another edition

This was so hard to read that if it wasn’t a book club choice I would have noped out about 20% of the way in. There were so many ways to make the story resonate without resorting to childish spelling and textual quirks, and I felt like it detracted from what could have been a pretty powerful read.

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