The Knife Of Never Letting Go By Patrick Ness - A Review By Laura

Synopsis

Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee - whose thoughts Todd can hear, too, whether he wants to or not - stumble upon an area of complete silence. They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden - a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives.

But how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought?

I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars and it deserves more! This book exceeded all my expectations...  When I began reading it my thoughts were;

• Its going to have a similar plot to every other book of this genre
• Its going to be a love story
• I can't read this the writing is irritating me (I'll explain a bit late on)
• I think this is going to be my second DNF book

The book proved me wrong on all my thoughts.

This book is completely different than any other of this genre I have read.
Recently it has started to annoy me how every book I read of this genre focuses on the love between the two main characters it just becomes so predictable, well so I thought. It hints at the fact that there is something between the two main characters however Patrick Ness focuses on the plot of the story instead, leaving this in the background... I love him for this.

 
The book is narrated by the main character and in order to make us connect and understand Todd Hewitt more Patrick Ness wrote as though Todd was talking... Todd can't read or write therefore Ness decided to spell certain words wrong e.g Stayshun for Station, direkshun for direction and twixt for between, I still haven't worked out where he got that last one from. During the first few chapters of this book I just couldn't get used to this. I was ready to put the book down but then the plot started to kick in and the more I read the more it became normal and was no longer a problem.

Due to mostly the spelling I was ready to put this book down but the way every chapter ended making me want to read on, just to see what was going to happen, I ended up finishing the book and I still don't know whats going on... HOW CAN YOU DO THIS TO ME PATRICK NESS! I could have had this book read in a day or two but knew that I had to wait till Christmas day to get the next book of the trilogy, I have five days to wait and it is already killing me, I am glad I dragged it out a little longer, I don't think I would have coped.

If you haven't read this book or started it and put it down READ IT! You will not regret it... To be honest I think it has the potential of becoming my favourite Trilogy!