Todd Hewitt is 12 years and 12 months old, a month from from his thirteenth birthday and as such a month froMY ACTUAL RATING: 4.75* (nothings perfect)
Todd Hewitt is 12 years and 12 months old, a month from from his thirteenth birthday and as such a month from becoming a man. Todd Hewitt is also the last boy in a settlement by the name of Prentisstown.
In Prentisstown all men can hear each others thoughts in a never-ending stream of Noise but one day Todd finds a patch of absolute silence and with that finds out much of his life is a lie and has to flee.
Favourite Quotes
"I think maybe everyone falls...I think the asking is whether we get back up again"
"Knowledge is dangerous"
"The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking"
"If one falls, we all fall"
"That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking for ever and ever.
Favourite Parts
pg. 52 - When Ben opens up his Noise to Todd, it just freaks me out. The fact that you don't really know what's going on but you still feel Todd's horror just makes it an amazing moment.
Chapter 25 - The whole of the Spackle encounter...emotions
Chapter 31 - Not really a favourite but very emotional
Character Comments
This book may have the most intensely evil villains I've ever read in a novel before it's actually shudder inducing creepiness. I must commend Ness' character development though. Todd is such a likeable character although his attitude in Farbranch irritated me a bit but it was understandable. I also love the characters Viola, Manchee, Ben and Wilf (although he wasn't in it much).
General Points
The novel is intensely fast paced with Todd's humorous and quite innocent narration to keep us going along. My feelings towards this book are deeply complicated. I was so excited to read this book and for long reasons it's taken me absolutely ages to read this book. So when I started the book the intentional grammatical errors such as 'informayshun', 'yer', 'tho' etc irritated me to no end but I slowly persevered and eventually it just becomes normal and you get over it. I will say as much as I loved this book there are some disturbingly violent sections and I found this book terrifying in that way that you feel like the plot isn't as far fetched as some may think (I was seeing links with might go wrong with the Mars One project). On a more positive note this is a gripping and tense read that left me on the edge of my seat flying through the pages (once I settled into the book). If I was going simplify the book, I'd describe it as a coming of age chase novel. I would recommend this book to all even if it's not your usual kind of book, I think you should try it, great characters, masterfully written and an epic concept.
So this review deceptively seems to be going in a negative way and then I'm like I loved it, it was really amazing it's just so hard to describe my feelings because I spent a long time freaked out by the book.
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