The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness - Review
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness Publisher: Candlewick Publication Date: July 2009 (reprint) ISBN: 9780763645762 496 Pages (Paperback) Young Adult: Dystopian Fiction Summary (from the publisher ): Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him — something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn’t she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd’s gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is. Quotes: Cuz as me the almost-man looks up into that town, I can hear the 146 men who remain. I can hear every ruddy last one of them. Their Noise washes down the hill like a flood let loos right at me, like a fire, like a monster the size of the sky come to get you cuz there’s nowhere to run.
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