My sister visited from college two weeks ago and during our traditional trip to Barnes and Noble I stumbled upon this book. I was a little suspicious at first but it turned out to be great!
Story:
Todd Hewitt is almost grown up. After twelve years of thirteen months on New World he is counting down the days until he turns 13 and finally becomes a man. But, to his great frustration, the day is not coming nearly soon enough and for now, he's stuck picking apples and tending to the sheep. He's the only boy left in Prentisstown, the only boy in a down with 147 men. All of the women, including Todd's mother, were killed by the Noise Germ only a little while after he was born. Besides the lack of women in their society, Prentisstown has many qualities that set it apart from the Old World. For example, everyone has Noise. Meaning everyone in the town can hear everyone else's thoughts. After being sent to the crocodile-infested swamp to pick apples Todd stumbles upon something, or rather, nothing. There's a space in the swamp where there is absolutely no noise. The silence is deafening to Todd, it feels like there's something cut out from inside of him when he gets closer to it and although he's made a staggering discovery, one that might even help Prentisstown he can't shake the feeling that he needs to keep it to himself, but how can he when everyone can hear and search his Noise? After being forced to leave Prentisstown, almost being murdered numerous times and finding something so strange that Todd can hardly even comprehend it, he must try to make it to the a settlement that is rumored to have a cure for the Noise. The journey is difficult enough for a 12 (technically 14 year old if you're counting by 12 month years) year old boy without all the dangers he meets along the way and the fact that there's an entire army after him.
"No one knows why. Still don't. Our scientists were mainly agriculturalists and the doctors couldn't find a reason and so for a while, there was chaos. Just...chaos like you wouldn't believe. Chaos and confusion and Noise, Noise, Noise."
This was an amazing book! It got to the point where whenever I had to stop reading I would almost cry and say "do I have to put it down?!" The main characters are amazing, it makes me feel like I've lost friends by finishing it, and not having the second book is torturing me. I'd highly recommend it to Sci-fi fans and people who like a lot of action in books. As for a rating I would give this story a 10 out of 5!
thanks for reading!
zibz
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