![]() ![]() But he thought there were no women or girls left in the New World? Running home to tell his guardians, Cillian and Ben, what he has found, he unwittingly stumbles upon a secret that triggers a life-changing series of events for him. ![]() One day Todd is out in the swamp and hears – or rather doesn’t hear – something significant. Add in the fact that animals can also talk and, as you can imagine, this is not conducive to the most relaxing of living conditions. The virus also causes ‘Noise’ – men hear each other’s thoughts as a constant, droning, mish-mash of words, ideas and feelings – it all merges to create, well, a big chaotic noise. Todd lives in Prentisstown, a settlement in the New World that’s now populated only by men after a virus killed all the women. The Knife of Never Letting Go sits in the dystopian young adult genre and follows Todd Hewitt as he finds himself running for his life. I have dipped my toe into the Patrick Ness water before with A Monster Calls and The Rest of Us Just Live Here and I’m just hooked on his wonderful writing style (as well as brilliantly innovative stories), so knew I was in for a treat. Published in 2008, quite a few people have recommended this book (the whole trilogy in fact) to me over the years with, as I now know, good reason. Opening sentence: “The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say.” The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. ![]()
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