Review
Superior teen fiction from an award winning writer, says David Maybury.
- The Knife of Nver Letting Go
- Walker
The Knife of Nver Letting Go
Patrick Ness reckons that his new book is like ‘reading Philip Pullman while simultaneously falling off a cliff’, and he isn’t wrong there. The Knife of Never Letting Go is Ness’ first book for teenagers and it doesn’t let you stop to catch your breath from beginning to end.
Todd Hewitt was born on New World. He can hear the thoughts of everyone in his village. And they can hear his. Twenty years before he was born, settlers left their lives of technology and violence to rebuild a simpler world. But not everything is right in his town. Life on New World is full of secrets and Todd is about to start discovering the truth.
Todd’s racing voice keeps you hooked throughout. The story is pieced together through Todd’s individual voice, he can’t read and uses his own spelling and words, mixed with the cross over thoughts of the things and people around him, including Manchee his dog.
The Knife of Never Letting Go is the first of a planned trilogy and the cliffhanger at the end of part one leaves you eager for much more.
