I have yet to read the final
installment, but I can assure you that The
Knife of Never Letting Go and The Ask
and the Answer are both incredible reads.
Patrick Ness has written a thrilling and thought-provoking science
fiction trilogy that, to paraphrase his wording, raises questions about the
amount of information available to us
today and the ways in which it is controlled. Todd is the only boy left in his
small town on a planet far away from the original Earth. To become a man, Todd must undergo a kind of
initiation ceremony, the details of which he is unaware. What’s more, there are no women in this town,
and all the men can hear each other’s thoughts 24/7. Todd believes that the so-called “Noise”
germ killed the women but only infected the men when they arrived on this
planet. He has been brought up by two
men he calls his uncles, and one day, soon before he is to become a man, they
tell him to take run away to the next
town and find other people, because the leader of the town has a very sinister
objective in mind. On the way, he
discovers a crash-landed spaceship…and a girl, still alive. Todd has never seen a girl before. He knows he cannot leave her behind. Furthermore, he cannot hear her thoughts at
all…but she can hear his. For readers 14
and up (there is violence, but it is not gratuitous).
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