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Gr 9-Up Todd Hewitt lives in a world in which all women are dead, and the thoughts of men and animals are constantly audible as Noise. Graphically represented by a set of scratchy fonts and sentence fragments that run into and over each other, Noise is an oppressive chaos of words, images, and sounds that makes human company exhausting and no thought truly private. The history of these peculiar circumstances unfolds over the course of the novel, but Ness's basic world-building ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

When Todd was a baby, a group of settlers, himself and his parents among them, landed on a faraway planet and contracted a "Noise" germ that makes all thoughts (even those of animals) audible. Growing up in the regimented, brutal all-male village of Prentisstown, Todd accepts the oppressive, omnipresent Noise, the absence of women (supposedly killed by Noise), and the vilification of the indigenous "Spackle" people without question—until he encounters a strange pocket of silence, and his adoptive parents orchestrate his escape to another s...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Todd lives in a brutal all-male society where thoughts are audible. He escapes, embarking on a classic coming-of-age survival journey a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The Knife of Never Letting Go is one of the most thrilling young adult novels of the year. The premise of the story is original and raises a variety of captivating questions. Patrick Ness is masterful at the careful reveal, satisfactorily answering some questions while deepening the greater mysteries of the story. As Todd explores parts of New World he never knew existed, his...Log In or Sign Up to Read More