Patrick Ness writes young adult and adult fiction that combines speculative ideas with questions about grief, identity, violence and the stories people tell themselves. The Chaos Walking trilogy begins with The Knife of Never Letting Go, where Todd Hewitt lives in a settlement whose men can hear one another's thoughts as constant Noise and discovers that his community has hidden crucial facts from him. A Monster Calls follows a boy coping with his mother's illness through nightly visits from a giant yew-tree monster that demands stories rather than comfort. More Than This begins with a teenager apparently waking after his own death in an abandoned version of his old town. The Knife of Never Letting Go is the strongest starting point for speculative YA, while A Monster Calls gives a shorter, more concentrated example of Ness using fantasy to approach grief. Read more Less
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