A review by erickabdz
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

4.0

You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

The Knife of Never Letting Go was an interesting, heart-breaking and chaotic book. I say chaotic as the best of the compliments. It is a book that does not only tell, but makes you experience the emotions of its narrator. The story is full of meaning and keeps you intrigued to the very end (maybe please give the kids a break?), and some of the characters are incredible likeable (I hope there's more of the others in the next book, though, because another bunch of them just didn't seem believable), but what really got me was the writing. I have never read a book that could capture feelings of frustration, despair and fear so well, and even if I struggled in the beginning once I got used to Todd's voice I couldn't imagine the story being told in any other way.

Todd's voice achieves telling a compelling story in a very unique way, and I'm glad to have picked this book for the Around the Year Challenge or otherwise it would had continued in my to-read shelf. However, I'm certainly taking a time before reading the next books so my heart can heal a little.

Oh, son, there’s so much wonder in the world. Don’t let no one tell you otherwise.