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Can you imagine a world with no secrets, no lies, no privacy, and where everyone can hear each all of your thoughts? While many people tell lies and keep secrets, such is not the case in Prentisstown. Moreover, our definition of noise is completely different than Prentisstown’s definition. What we usually consider noise, can come from many discordant sources, like the racket created  by a babies’ wailing. The people of Prentisstown, however, define Noise as the clatter of minds speaking. The main character, Todd Hewitt, can barely tolerate this noise, and many adventures lie ahead.

            The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness is a breathtaking book of adventures. I really like the plot line, in the sense that it involves a civilization where privacy of the mind is nonexistent. Ness takes the idea of privacy to the almost unthinkable extreme. I also like how the title of each chapter narrates the book itself. In addition, I am extremely fond of the way Ness disallows the girl from understanding Todd. This trickery makes me as the reader believe that the girl is useless in the book and that she only causes problems. But the plot starts making twists and turns, and I soon realized that the symbolism of the girl wasn’t useless, because otherwise there would be no story if not for the girl. Overall, The Knife Of Never Letting Go is tremendously interesting, such that it prevents the reader from putting the book down!