Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking 0) by Patrick Ness

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This is an unflinching novel about the impossible choices of growing up, by an award-winning writer.Imagine you're the only boy in a town of men. And you can hear everything they think. And they can hear everything you think. Imagine you don't fit in with their plans...Todd Hewitt is just one... read more

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Cast of Characters/Important People

Todd Hewitt: Main character, from Prentisstown
Viola Eade: girl from another planet that Todd finds in the swamp
Manchee: Todd's dog
Aaron: The minister from Prentisstown
Mayor Prentiss (Mr. Prentiss Sr.): Mayor of Prentisstown
Davy Prentiss (Mr. Prentiss Jr.): Sheriff of Prentisstown
Ben: Todd's guardian
Cillian: Todd's other guardian

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First Sentence

The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got much to say.

Part I
1. The hole in the noise
2. Prentisstown
3. Ben and Cillian
4. Don't think it
5. The things you know
6. The knife in front of me

Part II
7. If there was
8. The choices of a knife
9. When luck ain't with you
10. Food and fire
11. The book of no answers
12. The bridge

Part III
13. Across the bridge
14. The wrong end of a gun
15. Brothers in suffering
16. The night of no apologies
17. Encounter in an orchard
18. Farbranch
19. Further choices of a knife

Part IV
20. Army of men
21. The wider world
22. Wilf and the sea of things
23. A knife is only as good as the one who wields it
24. The death of the worthless coward
25. Killer

Part V
26. The end of all things
27. On we go
28. The smell of roots
29. Aaron in a thousand ways
30. A boy called Todd
31. The wicked are punished

Part VI
32. Downriver
33. Carbonel Downs
34. Oh never leave me
35. The Law
36. Answers to askings
37. What's the point?
38. I heard a maiden call
39. The Falls
40. The sacrifice
41. If one of us falls
42. Last road to Haven