Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans... Todd Hewitt is just one month away from the birthday that will make him a man. But his town has been keeping secrets from him. Secrets that are going to force him to run...
The new edition of this unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up features the short story, The New World. Set before the events of The Knife of Never Letting Go, it is the story of Viola's dramatic journey to the New World.
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Despite the hype and the fact I have adored every Patrick Ness novel I've ever read, I wasn't entirely sure I was going to like this book. The book uses quite unusual stylistic prose (call it futuristic country bumpkin) that grated at first and took ages to get used to. The book does use different text styles as well at times which didn't always work. Still, this is a great book. Terrible things happen. Amazing things happen. My gut got kicked and my heart got punched a lot. I cried like a little bitch a bunch of times. Todd is a great narrator. You get inside his head from the first sentence and get pulled right into the story. I didn't realise for ages that Manchee was the dog and when I did I was a tad creeped out. Bring on more of this!