The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness is the first book in the Chaos Walking series. While this was one of my favorite books during my research, it took forever to finish! The first half I finished in no time...then crap started piling up and my reading time got a lot smaller! So I finally finished it a couple weeks ago now and loved it!
This book made me feel young. "The Knife" is classic science fiction at it's best. Todd and Viola are the main characters. Together they are trying to out run an army! I really loved this story. Mr. Ness has a way with words. Within and between the horribly annoying imporper speech that the settlers use are some really powerful passages. "The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking." Love it! There were a couple spots while I was reading that were like that...I just knew I had to write them down or mark the spot because it was just amazing.
My only complaint with this book is the TOTAL lack of ending. It was pretty obvious early on that this was going to be a series of books, but I have a problem when authors can't take the time to end something. Right up to the last couple of pages it was looking like a somewhat normal end was coming. But than BAM! It's gone and I was left with the RAGE of A.) not having the next book to read NOW; and B.) not having the time to read that book until after my research was done! It was dreadful. Even with those two infuriating problems I still think this was one of the best books I've read this year.
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