books like the knife of never letting go

When I read “ The Power“, this was the book I was hoping for and finally I got it. He uses what he knows about gender in society and throughout history to take this difference to its horrifying extreme. In this story, Ness creates a world where there truly is a difference between men and women. One thing I love about Ness’ writing is that he is not afraid to commit completely to exploring a difficult, nuanced issue. When I picked up this book, what I was expecting the satire of “ The Rest of Us Just Live Here” or the poignancy of “ Release“. Sorry, my dog was just being too cute not to include this one However, when Todd stumbles across an impossible silence, everything he thought he knew about his town is thrown upside down. Spending most of his time alone with his dog Manchee, Todd is waiting for his 13th birthday, the day he will become a man, which is just a month away. In a town inhabited solely by men, where everyone can hear everyone else’s unfiltered thoughts at all times, Todd is the youngest. “The Knife of Never Letting Go” by Patrick Ness is a dystopian young adult science fiction novel about a boy called Todd Hewitt who lives in a place called Prentisstown. It has been a while since I’ve reviewed a book with tinted edges, and there is also a film adaptation currently in production, so I thought I’d better get moving.

To celebrate 10 years of publication, the series was recently released in these very striking editions with black-edged pages and I absolutely had to have them. I think that he really is the cutting edge of young adult fiction right now, and when he told me last year that he had a character in one of his series with the same name as me, I knew I was going to have to give it a go. I have been reading this author for a while, and I was so excited to meet him in person at the Sydney Writers’ Festival last year. Dystopian young adult science fiction with a gender twist

Books like the knife of never letting go