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Knife of Never Letting Go
Knife of Never Letting Go | Patrick Ness
The riveting Chaos Walking trilogy by two-time Carnegie Medalist Patrick Ness, reissued with compelling new covers and a bonus short story in each book. Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is."
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Creadnorthey
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Mehso-so

Good but a bit of a slog in the mid-bits. Story comes together too slowly and could have used some character revision between world building interactions. Suffers from YAL repetition to nail down the point. That said, I‘ll move to read the rest of the trilogy because all the reviews say good gets better.

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Blueberry
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Eggs 🖤🔪❤️ 14mo
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fortune_bookie
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Hope may be the thing that pulls you forward, may be the thing that keeps you going, but that it's dangerous, that it's painful and risky, that it's making a dare in the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?

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JacintaMCarter
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#2022Book125
This was definitely a different take on the “teenagers trying to survive a dystopian hellscape.” The characters were well-developed and behaved the way you would expect from kids that age. My only issue with this book is that the “big reveal” didn‘t happen until almost 400 pages in, and by then I was started to get annoyed with the characters inching toward the reveal and then backing off again.

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doodeh
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Noise everywhere. A single spot is quiet. Should be interesting 🤩

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Texreader
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1) tagged (scifi)

2)👸 🏰 👑 ⚔️ 🗿🏯🛖🛡🏺🎎 📖 (historical fiction) and 🧛‍♀️ ⚰️ (Dracula)

3) I get to travel the 🌎 and learn lots of amazing stuff

4) cover art

#thoughtfulthursday Thanks for the tag! @CindyMyLifeIsLit & @kspenmoll

CindyMyLifeIsLit I just recently read Dracula and absolutely loved it!! So many classic Gothic stories are examples of the difference in what they considered scary versus what we consider scary, but Dracula crosses that bridge to modernity very well! 2y
Texreader @CindyMyLifeIsLit It really does. It feels like it could have been written in the last few decades not the 1800s. 2y
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Texreader
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Todd is born on the New World, settled by his parents and other colonists hoping to find peace and security on a new planet. But men on this planet have been “infected” with a disease of some sort that makes their thoughts, emotions, and dreams public—meaning it‘s endless Noise, causing chaos—part of the title of the trilogy. The settlers form groups that deal with this Noise and chaos in all sorts of different ways, some good some bad. ⬇️

Texreader Todd sets out on a journey (I won‘t say why, because spoilers) with his dog. This book is about his journey, meeting a “quiet” girl (women don‘t have the infection), and their discovering these very diverse communities, facing kindness as well as horror along the way. This was both an amazing & awful book. I loved it & couldn‘t put it down. It was non-stop action with a compelling story & mystery. It‘s gory but that‘s not my problem with it. ⬇️ (edited) 2y
Texreader For starters, I hated the dog‘s story arc. And I hated the ending. Not because it was a cliffhanger, of course it‘s first in a trilogy, but because of the substance of the ending. Despite the myriad horrible events that took place in book 1, it‘s clear it will get even worse. I‘m not sure I have the emotional wherewithal to continue down this road with Todd without a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel. I‘m sure it does, but do ⬇️ (edited) 2y
Texreader I want to go there? This book was an emotional investment. I will have to decide if I‘m ready to put even more emotion into it. So I‘m disappointed. I was hoping this could be one of my favorite books of the year. I can say with confidence, sadly, it was not. #litsyatoz #letterK (edited) 2y
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Texreader
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I love this article about “revenge bedtime procrastination” because it‘s so true. But not tonight. I‘m staying up to read the tagged book because Dang, It‘s a Good Book!

But if you want to see if this article is true for you, too, here‘s the link: https://www.npr.org/2022/06/14/1105122521/stop-revenge-bedtime-procrastination-g...

MoonWitch94 Ughhhh I am guilty of this. 2y
Sparklemn Good article. Thanks for sharing! 😊 😴 (edited) 2y
Graywacke I do this. I‘m doing it right now. ☺️😁(But those solutions in the article - 🙄) 2y
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Texreader
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Yep, and here we are still on Old World. #litsyatoz #LetterK

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Texreader
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I started this ebook yesterday for #litsyatoz #LetterK

TracyReadsBooks Love this book—fascinating to see how Ness‘ inspiration plays out in the entire trilogy which is hands down my favorite YA trilogy. It deals with so many important/interesting issues in telling an emotionally complex, intense, action filled story. 2y
Texreader @TracyReadsBooks I love this post! Thanks for generating excitement! 2y
TheLudicReader I never finish trilogies, but I finished this one. ❤️ 2y
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ZariaCrump
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Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness, follows Todd Hewitt, a 12-year-old boy on the run from his dystopian town, a place where men are plagued by the persistent noise of each other's thoughts. On his journey, Todd meets an unexpected friend, and together they learn to survive in this unprecedented world. I would highly recommend this novel to those who enjoy dystopias and science fiction; It is definitely a page-turner right off the bat. (1)

ZariaCrump (2) A theme present in the story is the loss of Innocence, as Todd experiences the harsh reality of growing up. He must very quickly learn to be independent, as well as take care of those around him. 3y
MissYaremcio Patrick Ness is one of my favourite authors! Great review! My favourite character is Manchee! 6/6 3y
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TheLudicReader
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Thanks for the tag @Crazeedi
1. I personally love an unreliable narrator.
2. My favourite bookish item is a book.
3. I often recommend the tagged series, partly because it‘s one of the few series I‘ve finished….and I finished it because I really liked it. I also recommend The Book of Lost Things a lot.
@MoonWitch94
I‘m late getting to this so consider yourself tagged.

Crazeedi Book of lost things was good 3y
BarbaraBB Number 2 🤣😘 3y
TheLudicReader But seriously, though, @BarbaraBB . Haha. 3y
BarbaraBB Totally agree! 3y
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The_Literary_Jedi
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📚📚📚📚 Loved this with two caveats - the dialect Ness uses for the main character, Todd is at first distracting but eventually fades to the background and second, end of chapter 31, part five….makes sense for the plot and emotional development but it still gets me deep down in my nuggets 😭 Also a movie with Tom Holland & Daisy Ridley & Mads Mikkelsen

readingjedi Love this series. There's an event in the second one that I still rate as one of the most emotionally devastating things I've ever read 😭😭😭 3y
The_Literary_Jedi @readingjedi - oh no! I‘ll have my emotional support pug on standby 🥺 3y
kellyann28 I agree with you! That part was....a lot. 😭 3y
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radesilets
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I am in love with Manchee the dog from The Knife of Never Letting Go. He would help gather firewood and chase the night critters away from camp. #litsysummercamp @ImperfectCJ

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Pearrr
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bookiemonster_ph
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Moonprismpower
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Mehso-so

This is between a pick and so-so. It‘s a sad gut wrenching book. But it could have lost a hundred pages and still be exactly what it was. It took me forever to finish just because of the drudgery of getting through it. I loved Manchee. I wanted to smack Todd and tell him to get over himself. But i also cried for Todd and for Viola. Sometimes I feel like there‘s TOO MUCH ANGST in some books.

MidnightBookGirl I bailed on this book because it legit gave me a nightmare (I could not with abuse of that poor dog). 3y
Moonprismpower @MidnightBookGirl this book just has absolutely no hope which is funny because in the last 50 pgs Viola is all like, “we‘ve got to hold on to hope!”Everything is sad. Every thought, the characters, the action. Maybe that‘s why it was so hard to finish for me. And I agree with you. Todd treated Manchee poorly and the dog couldn‘t understand. He just loved Todd. (edited) 3y
Texreader @Moonprismpower @MidnightBookGirl I just finished reading this book and wanted to read the other posts about it. I really am connecting to y‘all‘s reaction. I read and loved it (so I gave it a pick) but I also hated it so much for the reasons y‘all described. And I agree, too much angst for one book! Not sure I could read book 2. Glad I didn‘t run out and buy it. 2y
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Lizpixie
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Bk7 of April & Bk4 of #AwesomeApril #readathon is done! Bk1 of the Chaos Walking trilogy, I‘ve been seeing the trailer for the new movie everywhere & thought it looked intriguing. Imagine my joy when I remembered I‘d bought the whole series a few years ago!Took me a few chapters to get into it but then I couldn‘t put it down. 4⭐️ #LitsyAtoZ2021 #LetterK #SeriesRead2021 #StackingTheSeries #Pop21 #PickYourPoison #ChunksterChallenge #SpaceTimeReads👇

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Lizpixie
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I completely forgot that my Special Editions of this trilogy are all signed! #bonus

MollyLooby One of my top trilogies of all time! 😍 4y
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Lizpixie
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Coming off another 2day migraine, I‘ve managed to add some more hours on my #AwesomeApril #readathon first with the audiobook of Six Of Crows then a few chapters of the 1st book in the Chaos Walking trilogy. I came across the trailer for the new movie & remembered i have the whole series in these 10th Anniversary Editions in my #MountTBRShelvesOfDoom So far it‘s brilliant!

TheLudicReader I loved this series. 4y
Andrew65 You do well to read at all with a migraine. Hope you are feeling better. 4y
Andrew65 @TheLudicReader Agree, brilliant series. 4y
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Meghan1
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Book 15 of 2021. Raw and gritty dystopian/science fiction survival story. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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TheBookAddict
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Ok, so...I had mixed feelings.

Todd lives in a world with “noise.” This noise is the thoughts of men and creatures. There are no women in his town (the only town), because the same germ that caused the noise caused the women to die. Todd will be a man in a month, on his 13th bday and he‘s looking forward to it. He‘s going about his business when he happens upon a patch of quiet, which isn‘t possible in a world with noise... 👇🏽

#YesiReads

TheBookAddict Had mixed feelings because when he happens upon this “quiet,” we have so many questions. And as Todd gets some answers through people‘s noise we are not shown what info was given in the noise. Throughout the book we hear others‘ noise, but we don‘t see what‘s being revealed to Todd until we‘re about 400 pages in. It‘s a pick because the story was still enthralling and kept moving along, but it was so frustrating that he had answers and we didn‘t. 4y
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Mrs_B
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Loved this book, it was so clever. Very very well written. The author clearly had the world pictured so vividly. It is dark but there is hope.
Spoiler in comments...

Mrs_B OMG THE CLIFFHANGER ENDING!!! Aaarrrggghhhh 4y
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AudiobookingWithLeah
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Overall Rating 5⭐ | Narration 😍 = Amazing
I haven‘t been this into a story and its outcome in a while, it effing gutted me. I had tears falling down my face as I was pulling into the parking lot of my workplace. I wasn‘t going to listen to this book it sounded too weird, but then I saw the trailer for the movie, it looks good and I have a couple of credits to burn. Was it worth the credit? Hell yes, it was! Do I recommend the audio version? 💯YES

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totefairie
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Weekend binge 🎧👓📖
#bookstoscreen

LibrarianRyan I'm thinking of doing the same thing! 4y
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jackilynn
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jackilynn
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Well then 🤔

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jackilynn
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I have really been enjoying my quiet day at home. I don't want to put my books down and head into work 😩😜🤓

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Nutmegnc
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This one is on sale if you haven‘t yet grabbed it!!

Texreader Grabbed it. Thanks!! 4y
Nutmegnc @Texreader good for you!! I‘ve wanted this one for a long while. Can‘t wait. This one is going to top of TBR!! 4y
BkClubCare Be careful!!!!! 4y
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vanessacar2n
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I am pleasantly surprised by this series! Trying a new author that is not the typical genre I choose, has kept me completely intrigued and captivated! The 50 pages were a little bit difficult to get through, but after that I have not been able to put this book down! A must read for sure! Not quite finished, but I look forward to seeing what happens next!

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Coleen
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There‘s a movie adaptation coming out soon, so I moved this up to the top of my reading pile. I enjoyed it quite a bit — really good on audio.
But man....I ugly cried big time at a point about 3/4 of the way through. If you‘ve read it, you know what I‘m talking about. 😭

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Valink
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Looking for help! I‘m buying books for my nephews in 8th & 11th grade & want to give one of them this series. Which age would it be best for? I read it years ago & don‘t remember. And any suggestions for the other nephew? I haven‘t seen them since last Christmas & I‘m having a hard time figuring out what they are interested in lately.

LibrarianRyan Tell me a little more about them. This I‘d say either. It‘s a cusp novel. Some other good series started to think about: 8th grade slays by Brewer (vampires are coming back in). Teen Killer club for the 11th. #murdertrending (11). Being that it‘s a new Prime series maybe Stormbreaker by Horowitz. The books start 8th grade okay but age as the teens age. For either age Illuminae. It looks HUGe but it‘s a fast read. 4y
LibrarianRyan You could go classic like The Book of 3 which is the first book of the Pridyan Chronicles (the black cauldron) by Alexander. Or do modern Fantasy with Redwall by Jacques. Both would be fine for either. 4y
LibrarianRyan For your 11th Escape from the furnace. Fantasy about a prison for teens. It‘s modern but feels a but feels a bit steam punk and also a bit like the first GI joe move. But I LOvE it!!! If they like movie monsters there is Dept 19. It has a new world war take on classic monsters like Frankenstein. You could go for Eragon by Paolini. He wrote it when he was 15. Either age appropriate but a bit dense if they are not a reader. 4y
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LibrarianRyan The Amulet of Samarkand. It‘s book 1 of the Bartemaus trilogy. Then there‘s the Secrets of the immortal Nicolas Flamel. They have new editions with eye catching covers in stores now. If they like playing fantasy video games try Rangers Apprentice. But be sure to start with the first series. Revenge of the witch was a great movie turned into a horror or movie (seventh son uggghh). 4y
LibrarianRyan For the 11th grade I would also probably suggest classic fantasy like Dune, iRobot, Do Androids Deam of Electric Sleep, or even HG wells or Lovecraft. 4y
LibrarianRyan Okay, I‘ll stop now. If those don‘t sound get kit me up with more info on the boys and I‘ll do a new list. 4y
Valink @LibrarianRyan thank you for all the suggestions! I was so stuck so I‘m glad I have somethings to look into. The 8th grader is such a sweet mush. Into football, cooking, saxophone & building things. I often get him activity books that we can do a project or two from together on Christmas, but I think he‘s out of that phase. The 11th is tougher. Into rap with tons of cursing and recently started weightlifting. Both a little immature for their ages (edited) 4y
Valink @LibrarianRyan this was what my son was in to when he was in HS, though the only one he read was electric sheep. I may get him a few books too. He loved Ray Bradbury so he would often pick his books for road trip audiobooks but I really didn‘t like the narrator he used, so that ruined the books for me! (Currently in his second year of college and reads a mix of graphic novels and very dense books) 4y
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cookie21
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This was so good! I just hope the next books can live up to it!

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cookie21
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The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.

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Blueberry
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Hard to rate this. I really liked the book but hated the ending.

LoveToReadLiveToRead I really enjoyed this trilogy, though it‘s quite a while since I read it. I think the end of this one is definitely to set you up for part two. 4y
PernilleHughes Loved this (yes the end sets up the next book.) all that running at the end made me exhausted just reading it. 4y
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Blueberry
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Currently reading and enjoying.

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pareads
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Oh my heart 💔 these poor characters go through so much in this book. The story is dark, gritty and didn't end with a lot of hope. I can't wait to see what happens in book 2! Also, I am naming my next dog Manchee 💛. As Todd would say, what a ruddy great dog.

night_shift I love this series 💔 4y
pareads @UnidragonFrag it is so so good! I can't believe I waited this long to read it. 4y
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pareads
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Really enjoying this so far. Patrick Ness always writes such a compelling, unique story. I also saw it will be a movie in January 2021?! #chaoswalking #patrickness

cariashley Can‘t wait for this movie! I just got my (non reader) husband into the series and he loves it too. 4y
pareads @cariashley I might have to get mine to read it too (also a non reader 😂). I'm only about halfway through right now, but once you get used to all the grammar and the setting the story just flies by. I love it! 4y
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TracyReadsBooks
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This is VERY exciting news. This movie is much delayed but I‘m very hopeful the wait will be worth it.

(From Ness‘ Instagram)

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Mdonald
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wideeyedreader
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Book— tagged!
Author— Amie Kaufman
Movie— King Arthur (2004)
Band— Kaleida
Song—King For a Day by Pierce the Veil
#manicmonday #letterk

JoScho Thanks for playing ☺️🖤 4y
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La_Cori
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#ManicMonday @JoScho

📚 tagged
✒ Kafka and John Keats
📽 Kingsman (the first one)
📺 The Killing
🎤 Kings of Leon
🎶 Kiss me - Sixpence None The Richer https://open.spotify.com/track/754kgU5rWscRTfvlsuEwFp?si=Bf9Frs8KRTmok02VqCW15g

Buechersuechtling 🎶💗 4y
JoScho Love Kings of Leon 🖤 4y
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Enchanted_Bibliophile
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📙Knife of Never Letting Go, The
👩‍💻King, Stephen
📽️Karate Kid, The (1984)
🎼Ke$ha
🎶Keep Your Hands Off My Girl (Good Charlotte)

#manicmonday #LetterK @JoScho

JoScho Thanks for playing 🖤☺️ 4y
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Onceuponatime
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A fantastic start to this trilogy! Manchee might just be my favorite character ever. ❤️🐶
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #oregonbattleofthebooks

ScrappyMags Looks good - would you say it‘s gritty or more cozy in the mystery department? 4y
Onceuponatime @ScrappyMags It‘s a bit gritty...still YA, but there is some violence. It‘s not really a mystery, but more of a dystopian. Very emotional, though...the story just flew by! (edited) 4y
Andrew65 Love this trilogy. 4y
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Onceuponatime @Andrew65 I can‘t believe I haven‘t read it yet! Really looking forward to the next two. 4y
Andrew65 @Onceuponatime Definitely maintains the standard. I read it two years ago but still stays with me. 4y
ItsAnotherJen Loved this trilogy too! 4y
TheLudicReader Manchee❤️ 4y
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Onceuponatime
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I love how the author shows readers what it‘s like for Todd to live with the Noise—hearing the thoughts and feelings of everyone every minute of every day and night. Yikes.

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Onceuponatime
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“The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don‘t got nothing much to say.”
#firstlinefridays
@ShyBookOwl

ShyBookOwl Stacked! 4y
TheLudicReader One of my all-time favourite YA series. Manchee is my favourite literary dog ever. Sooooo good, these books. 4y
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