Book Review of The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

This book is a dystopian novel about a world where all thoughts are able to be heard, and it's called someone's Noise. Todd grew up in a town with no women, and he had been taught that a virus made Noise exist and killed all the women. Then Todd finds a girl who has a complete absence of Noise, and he realizes that the world is not what he had always known it to be. The folk of Prentisstown try to kill them, and as he flees with the girl, he learns that the people he grew up with are more than just dangerous.

This was beginning to be an interesting tale, but I had to stop reading it halfway through. I couldn't take the spelling and grammar anymore.

The narrator and protagonist is a boy named Todd. He barely knows how to read and write, and I can handle the "Ain't got no" phrasing or the "I done seen it" sayings. But when the author purposefully makes the narrator misspell things that he may not be able to spell on his own, I draw the line. I can only read celabrashun so many times before I start going crazy. And that's not a long drive for me.

If I could have gotten past the purposeful, and painful, misspellings, it would have been a great book. It's rare that I don't finish a book, and there's usually a very good reason I don't. This may seem like a silly reason, but I'm one of those people for whom the misuse of their/there/they're; your/you're; to/two/too; its/it's; by/buy; lose/loose; seen/saw; and an incapability to use punctuation makes me want to scream.

Everyone makes mistakes, myself included, but for an author to publish a book with purposeful spelling errors! Argh!!

However, if that doesn't bother you, it was starting to get very interesting.

Considering the spelling errors, I could not finish. But if I didn't get angry about spelling and grammar, at about halfway through the book I'd give it a rating of: 

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