Yes, he was an inherently good person, but he didn't have much oomph to him. Part of it I think was because I didn't have much faith in the main character. While listening to the audiobook of The Knife of Never Letting Go, I felt incredibly depressed. Most dystopias I've read and enjoyed had a modicum of hope to cling to, however small it may have been. There is virtually NO hope to cling to whatsoever in this story. It's not like I didn't understand the secrets, but they just took my brain too long to process for me to have that moment where my eyes bug out and am amazed at what has just been revealed.Īt the core of the story however, what really prevented me from enjoying it was how hopeless the whole situation felt.
And then once I did learn all the secrets by the end, they seemed to be too complicated for me to feel like this was a truly enlightening moment in the story. The only thing that waiting till the end had going for it was that it kept me from abandoning the book entirely because I was determined to learn what the Big Secret was. I like the plot to reveal itself bit by bit throughout the story rather than being bombarded with the whole shebang at the end. Virtually nothing about the New World's secrets is unearthed until the very end of the story which makes you feel like you're trudging through the plot to get to the Big Reveal at the end. Despite the fact that I liked the concept, its execution I thought was extremely painful to get through. It's like Patrick Ness took the concept of "Big Brother" from Orwell's 1984 and amped it up tenfold. The idea of The Noise I thought was so creative and like nothing I've ever encountered in a dystopia before. I'm going to start with what I liked about The Knife of Never Letting Go.
I just found it incredibly difficult to get through. I want to state right off the bat, that doesn't mean I'm saying this is a bad book. I, on the other hand, found very little that I enjoyed about it. So just about every review I've read of this book has highly praised it and declared what an amazing story it is. But how do you escape when your pursuers can hear your every thought? They find that in a town where privacy is impossible, something terrible has been hidden - a secret so awful that Todd and Manchee must run for their lives. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee - whose thoughts Todd can hear, too, whether he wants to or not - stumble upon an area of complete silence.
Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise.
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