Todd lives in a world where everyone could hear what everyone is thinking. It is the NOISE. Even animals speaking.

 

He got a dog that only think Todd and pooh and food. 

 

Then he met someone who is silence, and she is a girl. 

 

He is almost 13 and then he become a man.

 

His life is turned upside down after he knows what he thought was true was all a lie. His adoptive parents asked him to run for his life. 

And the silence girl refused to say a single word to him.

 

Of course, it is not that simple. The fun part is to discover the truth or almost truth of what's going on. It is a fun read. And the knife of never letting go is the first book of the series. 

 

Wonderful. 

 

Reading this for Paint it black square of Halloween Bingo

Reading this for Paint it Black square. 

 

Found out that I got quite a few total black cover books. 

 

This is one of them. The story go with a boy Todd who is 12 going on 13. And he is living in a town where they got a virus that make their thoughts broadcast to the world. So everyone could hear everyone else thinking. it is chaos and all the women died in the town including Todd's mother.

 

Dog can talk too.

 

He met a girl who is silence and now they are on the run. 

I nagged the friend who gave this to me into admitting the dog dies, so I didn't finish the book.

October 29, 2010

The only problem I had with this book was Todd's way of talking. (I don't think first-person books should be written in dialect, because our way of talking always sounds both natural and neutral to us. It only sounds like dialect to other people.) Other than that, I loved it. The very best thing that Ness did, was deal with how the lies and ignorance lead Todd to doubt everything. Beautifully done. I'd recommend it to fans of The Hunger Games

And yes, I'm eager to get the sequels and find out what happens next.

As an aside, according to the respective authors, both this and Feed come out of the same idea, the constant stream of info into modern lives. Very different books.

Library copyThe Knife of Never Letting Go - Patrick Ness  

3 stars

Great premise, but I had a problem with some of the details. I hated what happened to Manchee, and almost stopped reading at that point. Also, really Ben? This book relied on that most annoying trope in YA fiction. There's the We've been keeping a big secret from you, but every time there's about to be a Big Reveal, dire danger interrupts the revelation. I find this tiresome. And in a world where everyone's private, most personal thoughts are on display for everyone else to hear, I didn't buy that secrets that big could be kept from Todd.

This ends on a huge cliffhanger, so if you enjoy your time evading death with Todd and Viola, make sure you have Book 2 on hand.