The Knife of Never Letting Go

Todd is the last boy in Prentistown and in a month, he will become a man. However while exploring the swamp that surrounds his town with his annoying dog, he stumbles across something that changes his life forever and he has to run from everything and everyone he knows.


I have a confession to make...I wasn't looking forward to reading this book - there was so much hype and recommendations around it that I thought it would be one of those earnest books that misguided adults thinks teenagers will enjoy but I was wrong, so so wrong. The Knife of Never Letting Go is a fantastic novel that grabs you from the start and never lets go - it is the first book in ages that I couldn't out down and read well past my bedtime! Like Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, it is a careful blend of wow-inducing ideas, believable and likeable novel and a plot that never loses it momentum. Like all good novels; it made me laugh, it made me cry and most important of all it made me think.

"I don't know how I feel about any of this.

Doing what's right should be easy.

It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else"

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