The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking Series) by Patrick Ness
Todd Hewitt is on the verge of becoming a man. In about a month, a ceremony will take place in which he will officially become a man and take on the duties that reside with men. In the New World, there is only on society that Todd Hewitt has ever known: Prentisstown. It’s an unusual place.. For starters, its the only known civilisation on the planet. Secondly, the village is ruled by President Prentiss who named it after himself. Also, only around one hundred and fifty people live there and the weirest thing is… Each and every single one of them are male…
During the war the ravage war between humans and Spacks, a ‘germ’ was released by the Spacks that killed every last woman. Though the humans won the war, with no women left, they are doomed to die out…
Oh and one of the biggest parts of life in the New World is that everyone can hear everyone’s thoughts… The residents of Prenisstown are for the most part, miserable. They’ve lost their wives, daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts and grandmothers. That means their thoughts are miserable and weigh you down, almost drive you insane…
When Todd find a spot where he can’t hear anybody’s thoughts, everything changes for him… Some weird intuition tells Todd to try to hide this silence from everyone else in town (which is hard to do when everyone can read your thoughts). Soon he’s about to learn a lot more than he could have ever imagined…
AGE RATING: 12+
TEEN RATING: 4.2/5
TEEN OVERVIEW: From the wonderful imagination of Patrick Ness comes the first book in the Choas Walking Series. Gripping and incredibly unpredictable, The Knife of Never Letting Go is the perfect read for fans of Sci-Fi.
