Reddit Reddit reviews The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, 1)

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u/[deleted] · 10 pointsr/YAlit

Here are a few of the YA series I have enjoyed:

  • The Skinjacker Trilogy by Neal Shusterman. Link to first book, Everlost. Link to second book, Everwild. Link to third book, Everfound. It is a series following a group of teenagers who find themselves stuck in afterlife-on-earth after dying. These books are FANTASTIC; I'd put them on the same level as The Hunger Games.

  • Also, I'd recommend Unwind, also by Neal Shusterman. "In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called "unwinding." Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn’t “technically” end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound.
    With breath-taking suspense, this book follows three teens who all become runaway Unwinds: Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding; Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting; and Lev, his parents' tenth child whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing. As their paths intersect and lives hang in the balance, Shusterman examines serious moral issues in a way that will keep readers turning the pages to see if Connor, Risa, and Lev avoid meeting their untimely ends."

  • Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (same guy who wrote Uglies) follows the world as it falls into a unique sort of zombie apocalypse, started by non-fictional a parasite which resides in over half the population's brains.

  • The Chaos Walking Trilogy The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, Monsters of Men follows Todd, a boy trapped in a world completely made up of men who can hear each other's thoughts, finds something he has never seen before: a girl.

u/CatFiggy · 6 pointsr/books

The Chaos Walking trilogy. So amazing. My mom and I go to my Uncle's for a few days every Thanksgiving, and as they came out I would take them there with me.

u/MechAngel · 5 pointsr/books

The Knife of Never Letting Go and the rest of the "Chaos Walking" trilogy is an amazing read, with plenty of awesome combat. It also brings up many modern ethical questions. I loved it.

He might also like Ready Player One which I am not quite finished with yet, but has really sucked me in. Even though there are several pop-culture references from the 80s, the reader doesn't need to be familiar with any of them to enjoy the story. I was born in 1983 and was too young to really have experienced much of it, but I'm enjoying the heck out of the book. I believe there is one passage where the main character alludes to masturbating, but content-wise, that's the only thing that a parent might consider questionable that I've come across so far.

Both titles have teenage fighter-type males as protagonists.

u/FairyPoeline · 3 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

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u/fuwafuwafuwa · 3 pointsr/tipofmytongue

There's no knife on the cover, but the plot sounds similar: The Knife of Never Letting Go

u/wronginthemiddle · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

The Reapers Are The Angels.

Summary: Zombies have infested a fallen America. A young girl named Temple is on the run. Haunted by her past and pursued by a killer, Temple is surrounded by death and danger, hoping to be set free.

The style is pretty Southern gothic, sort of like Cormac McCarthy at times. If that doesn't bug you, you might like it. I loved this book.

Also, possibly the Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness. Some people like it, some don't. I haven't read it so take a peek at the Amazon "look inside" view and see what you think.

The Knife of Never Letting Go, Chaos Walking #1.

Enjoy!

u/Lambboy · 2 pointsr/WTF

That's my problem. I read to much to fast.

I often times read a authors 20 years of work in a few weeks and then have to wait two years for another release. Which sucks.

I finished The Knife of Never Letting Go on Friday as well so I ordered the next two in the series. The tracking number says they will be here tomorrow.

For me the search for a new and talented author is by far the most frustrating and also rewarding part of reading.

Thankfully I have the internet to aid me in the search.

u/I_love_aminals · 2 pointsr/Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

The Knife of Never Letting Go

"Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is."

It might sound stupid, but I got it in a Reddit Gift Exchange and I could not put it down. I can't wait to get the next one. It is not what you expect. Reminds me of the Hunger Games in the type of writing and suspense.

u/vonescher · 1 pointr/AskReddit

I read for fun every day. Finished Wool this summer and it was pretty great. Followed it up with the Chaos Walking series which was also a solid read. Whole lot of dystopia in a row though, after Wool. Now on the Vorkosigan Saga.

u/ohhaiworld · 1 pointr/books
  • Divergent/Insurgent (First two in an unfinished trilogy)
  • The Maze Runner (This is a trilogy)
  • Battle Royale
  • I've heard good things about The Knife of Never Letting Go (The first part of the Chaos Walking trilogy)

    To be honest, these are just some dystopia themed books I recommended because of Hunger Games. However, I could give better recommendations if you tell me more of what she wants. Young adult? Fantasy? Romantic aspect?
u/kentdalimp · 1 pointr/books

Picked up The Knife of Never Letting Go less than 1 month ago, I'm about 100 pages before I finish book 3. My wife started after me and finished first. Very VERY good... and disturbing, but not in a graphical "American Pshyco" type of way.

Actually picked it up because of a comment on Reddit. YA fiction (supposedly) but a great Summer Read.