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The Wide, Wide Sea

Patrick Ness

3.96 AVERAGE


Prequel to even the short story in Knife of Never Letting Go. Tells the story of a Spackle and human running away from war so they can be together. Less depressing than the Chaos Walking series so far.
adventurous emotional reflective slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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llcoffj's review

5.0
dark emotional hopeful sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
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irrene97's review

4.75
challenging dark emotional sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Surprisingly, this might be my most favorite story from this series. I normally don't like short spinoffs because they don't add any value to the character developments. But this...this was something special. The message was beautifully wrapped in the guise of a love story but it was much much more than just that. Don't skip this one!
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finneas's review

4.0
emotional hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix

actually: 2.5
i thought about this but this didn't feel so original.
no it was okay.
may be patrick gave a nice twist and all but that can really be expected after the ask and the answer. we know coyle quite nicely after that.
so this was okay.

I never doubted that patrick is a good novelist but his short stories are okay(atleast for me)
too simple and kinda unoriginal.

it's like if you wonna show small material of this good trio, it's expected to be somewhere atleast near it if not more than that.
dark emotional sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous emotional sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No
adventurous dark hopeful medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A