Reading Response 1

      8/15/13


       The Knife of Never Letting Go was a book that started out very bad. I hated the book at the beginning, I wanted to stop reading it, but I kept on reading because I had to for summer reading. By the time the book was finished I was glad I kept reading because the book kept getting better as you read.

       There were some bad parts or some parts that the author needed to make more clear in the book. One part was when Aaron attacked Todd and Viola, then Aaron got attacked by alligators. Usually when somebody gets attacked by alligators that means that the person died. When Aaron showed up again I was shocked because I though he died. A while after I discovered that Aaron was still alive it made me think, why would the author make someone look like thy died but they didn’t? I realized the author put Aaron’s return in the book so there could be a dramatic twist in the book. The bad part of the book was the ending. I hated the ending so much. My heart was racing, and I was wondering if Viola was going to make it. Then Mayor Prentiss comes out and claims he is the president of the New World, then the book ends. Overall I thought that this book was good and I hope I don’t abandon books any more.