![]() ![]() ![]() As is the case for most serials, Knife is also, perhaps, the most tightly and sharply written of the three. The Knife of Never Letting Go is the first novel of Ness’s much garlanded Chaos Walking trilogy. Patrick Ness’s young adult fiction is right up amongst the great and the good. What is it with teenage fiction these days that it seems not to shirk from addressing some the most pressing ethical problems of the day, and in highly imaginative ways? Their sheer thematic ambitiousness – the Holocaust, betrayal complicity and guilt, disability, violence, war, terrorism and even planetary consciousness – has led to crossover audiences no longer do adults have to be defensive about reading titles as varied as the His Dark Materials trilogy, The Book Thief, The Curious Incident of the Dog at Nightime, Holes and even The Hunger Games. ![]()
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