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A review by alialu
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
5.0
Holy cow, what a ride.
At the top of the cover of this book it says "WINNER, Guardian children's fiction prize".
And there's one word in that sentence that's been hunting me since 300 pages ago.
CHILDREN
How? How can this book that has war, death, sex implications, cruelty to another level, darkness all around, be categorized under CHILDREN'S fiction?
I wouldn't give this book to my children untill they're at least 15.
Still, this was good news of it. Because I was afraid that I had bought a book, that with its talking animals, was going to be too childish even for me. But I couldn't have been more mistaken.
While at first it took me a month to go around the first 100 pages, when you understand Ness' rythm, the paragraphs just flow under your eyes, like a never stopping good Noise.
What seemed like a maybe boring story turned into a heartbreaking but infinitelly interesting story about human's ambition, the consecuences of the life we're living, and the desire for a simpler kind of life (things I relate to immensely).
And the writing style that at first seemed plain bad, weird and cringy, turns out to be incredibly smart (big acclaim to Ness).
With that said, let's see if I can fix my heart a little with the second one (xD LOL, no there's no hope in that).
At the top of the cover of this book it says "WINNER, Guardian children's fiction prize".
And there's one word in that sentence that's been hunting me since 300 pages ago.
CHILDREN
How? How can this book that has war, death, sex implications, cruelty to another level, darkness all around, be categorized under CHILDREN'S fiction?
I wouldn't give this book to my children untill they're at least 15.
Still, this was good news of it. Because I was afraid that I had bought a book, that with its talking animals, was going to be too childish even for me. But I couldn't have been more mistaken.
While at first it took me a month to go around the first 100 pages, when you understand Ness' rythm, the paragraphs just flow under your eyes, like a never stopping good Noise.
What seemed like a maybe boring story turned into a heartbreaking but infinitelly interesting story about human's ambition, the consecuences of the life we're living, and the desire for a simpler kind of life (things I relate to immensely).
And the writing style that at first seemed plain bad, weird and cringy, turns out to be incredibly smart (big acclaim to Ness).
With that said, let's see if I can fix my heart a little with the second one (xD LOL, no there's no hope in that).