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jesskvan 's review for:
The Knife of Never Letting Go
by Patrick Ness
I don’t really know how to feel about this book. I don’t think I liked but, but I didn’t hate it either. The story is interesting however I had two main issues with it. One, the big reveal, when you get all the answers to the questions you’ve been asking, happens right at the very end of the book, and way way way too late if you ask me. By that point you have already figured out what happened, so when they tell you the ‘shocking truth’ it just isn’t all that shocking.
The second issue is that it’s depressing the whole way through. It’s just one bad thing after the other and it never gets better. There isn’t even a ‘kind of’ happy ending where you know it’ll get worse later, but for now it’s okay. It’s just all bad and hopeless and sad and depressing, and I need a little more than that to make it enjoyable to read.
So much so that towards the end of the book when the characters think they’ve found the gold at the end of the rainbow, I just knew that wasn’t going to be the case, which made it really quite predictable.
Just wish it was different I suppose.
The second issue is that it’s depressing the whole way through. It’s just one bad thing after the other and it never gets better. There isn’t even a ‘kind of’ happy ending where you know it’ll get worse later, but for now it’s okay. It’s just all bad and hopeless and sad and depressing, and I need a little more than that to make it enjoyable to read.
So much so that towards the end of the book when the characters think they’ve found the gold at the end of the rainbow, I just knew that wasn’t going to be the case, which made it really quite predictable.
Just wish it was different I suppose.