The Knife of Never Letting Go- Patrick Ness

   If you haven't read anything by Patrick Ness I honestly have no idea what you're doing with your life. You should be ashamed of yourself if you haven't even heard his name.

     The Knife of Never Letting Go, the first book in The Chaos Walking trilogy is AMAZING. I loved this book so incredibly much. This book takes place on an entirely new planet called New World where humans left Earth to colonize. Todd Hewitt lives with his two fathers in a town called Prentisstown. Everyone there is a man.  A dictator by the name of Mayor Prentiss rules. Todd is the youngest boy and will soon become a man. He's the last of the generation.

    When humans first moved to New World they discovered a terrible disease that killed women and let men hear each other's thoughts. Every form of learning in Prentisstown is gone due to Mayor Prentiss so Todd cannot spell and since the story is written in first person you see his spelling mistakes. It might be annoying at first but it was actually really creative and I admire the idea tremendously.

     One day, Todd and his dog Manchee are out retrieving something for Ben, one of Todd's fathers. However, Todd sees something he shouldn't and is forced to flee with Manchee. On the expedition he meets a girl who crashed in a scout ship and her parents died. She refuses to talk but Todd cannot leave her and drags her along on his mission to get to safety. Her appearance shocks Todd enormously. He's never seen a girl before and is terrified that the disease will kill her.

Todd, Manchee and the girl set out on a perilous journey to escape. However, there's one problem. How can you escape from someone that can hear your every thought?

Tremendous book, a must read. There's a ton of violence and inappropriate language but I still think it's good. After finishing The Knife of Never Letting Go you can read The Ask and the Answer and Monsters of Men.

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