You know when everyone tells you a book is amazing and when you get round to reading it, it falls a bit flat in your expectations? That's how I feel about The Knife of Never Letting Go. I'm pretty sure I'd have enjoyed it more if I wasn't expecting it to become suddenly amazing after each passing chapter.

Not to say it isn't a good book. The idea of being able to hear everyone's thoughts provides an interesting narrative, the first person accounts are not necessarily Todd's. Todd is the last boy in Prentisstown and is about to become a man in a world without women. At the start of the book, it's made clear that what Todd thinks to be true isn't the actual truth. As an adult reader, I think I worked it all out far too quickly and just wanted to get to the end to have it confirmed.

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