More Than This / A Monster Calls / The Knife of Never Letting Go: Sampler

by Patrick Ness

The sampler includes chapters from three of Patrick Ness’s celebrated novels: More Than This, A Monster Calls, and The Knife of Never Letting Go.

More Than This

From two-time Carnegie Medal winner Patrick Ness comes an enthralling and provocative new novel chronicling the life — or perhaps afterlife — of a teen trapped in a crumbling, abandoned world.

A Monster Calls
An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.

The Knife of Never Letting Go
A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard — and where the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret.

88 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 5, 2015

About the author

Patrick Ness, an award-winning novelist, has written for Radio 4 and The Sunday Telegraph and is a literary critic for The Guardian. He has written many books, including the Chaos Walking Trilogy, The Crash of Hennington, Topics About Which I Know Nothing, and A Monster Calls.

He has won numerous awards, including the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children’s Book Award. Born in Virginia, he currently lives in London.

Reviews

[Jacqueline Beal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this author, mysterious.

[Tabby Barkham · Rating 2 out of 5]

A bit of a let down after a knife of never letting go but decent follow up