The Knife of Never Letting Go
by:
Patrick Ness (author)
Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him....
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Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781406320756 (1406320757)
Publish date: October 22nd 2008
Publisher: Walker
Pages no: 479
Edition language: English
Series: Chaos Walking (#1)
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...
October 29, 2010The 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 ver...
3 starsGreat 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 ther...
The first two chapters were brutal to get through. I had picked up this book and put it down on several occasions before I actually read it. It did get much better after that. Having read 'The Gunslinger' by Stephen ruined this book for me. It has almost the same premise and flow. There were a lot o...
"The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness is the first book in the "Chaos Walking" trilogy. In Prentisstown woman are absence, claimed to have perished by the same virus that caused all of the men, and even animals, to hear each others thoughts and even see memories. The constant noise of th...