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Some books were just meant to be audiobooks.\u00a0 I never actually read physical books of Feed<\/em> or Thirteen Reasons Why<\/em>, so I cannot say for sure, but I can\u2019t imagine that reading them would have been anywhere close to the experience I had listening to them.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t think I would have done \u201cthe feed\u201d justice on my own, and I firmly believe that listening to Hannah\u2019s tapes along with Clay helped me to experience his emotional reactions much better than reading the text would have.\u00a0\u00a0I decided to listen to this book because my current audiobook was almost over and this one was sitting on the NEW shelf.\u00a0 I recalled that it got a good review, but I didn\u2019t remember anything about it.\u00a0 Well\u00a0. . .\u00a0 I am really glad I \u201caccidentally\u201d took out the audiobook instead of reading the book because it definitely reminded me a lot of Feed<\/em>!<\/p>\n Todd Hewitt lives in Prentisstown, a small settlement on New World.\u00a0\u00a0His people came to New World to escape religious persecution, but they found plenty of new problems upon arrival.\u00a0 The two main problems were the Spackle (lifeforms indigenous to the planet) and a germ that causes \u201cNoise\u201d (the projection of one\u2019s thoughts so that other people can hear and\/or see them).\u00a0 In this first book of the Chaos Walking trilogy, we learn two very important details:\u00a0 all of the women of Prentisstown are dead, and the boys \u201cbecome men\u201d at 13.\u00a0 Todd, the last remaining boy, is feeling anxious and confused about his impending 13th birthday because of all the secrets that are kept from the boys \u2014 including details about the actual ritual that will complete his transformation from boy to man.\u00a0 When, all of the sudden, Prentisstown becomes unsafe for Todd, his adoptive parents (Ben and Cillian \u2014 pronounced Killian) send him out into the wilderness with his dog (Manchee), a hunting knife, his mother\u2019s diary, and a map that should lead him to another settlement.<\/p>\n There was a lot to set up in this first book, but it was not overly difficult to follow.\u00a0 Plus, the action and adventure work well to keep readers hooked while bits and pieces of the history of Prentisstown are revealed.\u00a0 Definitely a book\/audiobook I would recommend to fans of dystopian science fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some books were just meant to be audiobooks.\u00a0 I never actually read physical books of Feed or Thirteen Reasons Why, so I cannot say for sure, but I can\u2019t imagine that reading them would have been anywhere close to the experience I had listening to them.\u00a0\u00a0I don\u2019t think I would have done \u201cthe feed\u201d justice … Continue reading The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking: Book 1) by Patrick Ness<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-young-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}