Then, just one month away from the birthday that will make Todd Hewitt a man, he unexpectedly stumbles on a spot of complete silence.
Everyone can hear everyone else’s thoughts in a constant, overwhelming, never-ending Noise. But Aaron is the most scariest character I’ve ever come across.Prentisstown isn’t like other towns. I don’t want to give loads away because in this book you have everything explained to you by the end of the book, unlike, say, The Hunger Games or Divergent where it only becomes clear in the last book. Todd can come across as rude sometimes but what can you expect when he’s lived such a sheltered life in Prentisstown, considering his only friend was his dog Manchee too since all the rest of the boys had become men (don’t ask)? He’s generally just a lovely character I think who struggles to come to terms with what he believes in and has been taught since he was a kid and the actual truth that’s been kept from him. Todd is our protagonist and I have to say I was quite fond of him, he grows on the reader as the story progresses I think, especially near the end, because, guys, the feels with him and Viola! Major cuteness, on a scale of like 1 to 10… 10. I’d never wish to hear a boys thoughts anyway but having no choice… What horror! What’s worse is that women can only hear men and boys. The noise issue got me though it’s just the fact that sometimes I get really frustrated when my own mind is too chaotic, so I could only imagine myself in the New World, idea being, imagine me (blonde, loud, ditzy, small, humorous girl) stomping round in a huff probably with steam raging from my ears shouting ‘SHUT UP’ for all to hear. When I understood the whole concept of the ‘noise’ and the fact that basically animals can speak I was alright, yet still a bit unsure. Maybe it was because my knowledge of dystopian fiction from The Hunger Games etc is rather limited.
I felt a bit confused, but being only a few pages in I couldn’t bring myself to give in (if you’re one of those people, how can you do that?!). I admit at first I didn’t quite understand what was going on. Over the October half term I read The Knife of Never Letting Go, the first book in the Chaos Walking Trilogy – it was SOOOO worth it.
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