Books by Patrick Ness
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review 1: This sci-fi short story, being the prequel to Ness' The Knife of Never Letting Go, gripped me from the very first sentence, and well, never let go. Twelve going on thirteen-year old Viola relates the harrowing account of her family's travels of leaving the comforts of home for th...
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review 1: Kamala. Tai kamalan hyvä. Koko sarja ansaitsee kyllä tähtensä. Kannessa lukee: Profoundly humane and utterly magnificent. [] I would press the Chaos Walking trilogy urgently on anyone, anyone at all(Guardian). En ole koskaan lukenut mitään vastaavaa, mutta toisaalta olen vältelly...
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review 1: I thought Ness couldn't top The Knife of Never Letting Go. I was way off. His characters are the very definition of complex. The heroes waver, the villains can be sympathized with, and the narrative can take turns you never expected. There are moments where I absolutely hated Tod...
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review 1: This book was so amazingly heartfelt, interesting, mysterious and overall awesome! I didn't think that I would like this book very much as it is a Sci-Fi but I actually couldn't put this thing down! Seth is such an amazing character and I wanted to know every little thing about h...
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review 1: This was an interesting one, as the Doctor was barely there – he was conducting an investigation and blowing stuff up, all the usual Doctory fare, but instead of watching his exploits, we focused on the ordinary people caught up in the adventure. It reminded me of "Love & Monster...
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review 1: This story turned out so much better than I initially thought, because there was a new protagonist and a whole new set of characters.The only familiar character was Mistress Coyle, who turned out to be not such a complete bitch in this book, and rather good. I liked how her part ...
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review 1: This is the last of the bonus short stories and what seems to be the continuation towards the conclusion of the Chaos Walking series. It shows how the New World evovled as the settlers came and when peace was achieved with the Spackle. It also provided the ending of Todd waking u...
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review 1: I received this book through Goodreads giveaways! 4.5 rating! There really is no way to summarize this book. It truly is a work of art. The message is universal and can be taken to mean many different things to different people. For me this book took an old Japanese fairytale ab...
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review 1: Okay, I really should have given this trilogy more but it jerked me around so much that I've gotta get some payback. I actually loved them despite that. They're great and original. *SPOILERS(Sort of, and they're just little)* The story is quality. The ending romantic. but every b...
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review 1: This is probably one of the best books I have read this year! I have heard so much about Patrick Ness; I have not been disappointed. Though the books are quite big (the smallest being just under 500 pages)they are very fast-paced and I found it, unbelievably, a quick read. The pr...