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This book has reached its expiration so I have taken it off my shelves.

The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking, #1) by Patrick Ness

December 23, 2022 by narfna 4 Comments

Not for me, I’m sure it was great. (Or was it???) I might have liked this if it was still 2009. It seriously felt like time-traveling back to when I thought I liked dystopias, and when they were everywhere. Also, I just don’t think this author is for me. I read another book from him a couple years ago and also didn’t care about it very much. This is a YA sci-fi/dystopia about a boy and his dog who live in a place where there […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Tagged With: #Science Fiction, chaos walking, Dystopian, narfna, Patrick Ness, sci-fi, The Knife of Never Letting Go, YA, Young Adult

narfna's CBR14 Review No:222 · Genres: Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction, Young Adult · Tags: #Science Fiction, chaos walking, Dystopian, narfna, Patrick Ness, sci-fi, The Knife of Never Letting Go, YA, Young Adult ·
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I’m going to go ahead and let go of this knife.

March 9, 2014 by scootsa1000 3 Comments

Sometimes you might read a book that isn’t particularly well written, or doesn’t have the most original plot, but it just has SOMETHING about it that makes you love it. Its like the book was written just for you, and that’s a treat. And sometimes you read a book that has everything going for it — its well written, has an interesting plot and great characters. And everyone loves it. Except for you. And you don’t even know why. This is precisely what happened to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #CBR6, Patrick Ness, Scootsa1000, The Knife of Never Letting Go

scootsa1000's CBR6 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #CBR6, Patrick Ness, Scootsa1000, The Knife of Never Letting Go ·
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