As much as I always get sucked into them and enjoy discussing them, I have to admit I don't love them the same way I love Plain Kate or The Demon's Lexicon or The Orphan's Tales. There are books I like a lot, and then there are OMG BOOKS OF MY HEART, if you see what I mean. ;)
If you like dark, postapocalyptic YA, though, you should definitely check out The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. I think it's a better book in some ways than the Hunger Games, though it also demands much more of the reader. It's a much more interior story, if that makes sense--Rachel might like it better than she did the Hunger Games books. (Or you might hate the narrative voice, which is a bit... unique.) And the cliffhangers are much steeper. And at one point I put Knife of Never Letting Go down and whimpered "I don't like this book any moooore" and picked it up again half an hour later because I had to know what happened.
I've just started the sequel, The Ask and the Answer, in preparation for the final book coming out in a few weeks. I'm pretty sure I'll have to re-read something ridiculously fluffy, like Eyes Like Stars, afterward. XD
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Date: 2010-09-09 08:03 pm (UTC)If you like dark, postapocalyptic YA, though, you should definitely check out The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness. I think it's a better book in some ways than the Hunger Games, though it also demands much more of the reader. It's a much more interior story, if that makes sense--Rachel might like it better than she did the Hunger Games books. (Or you might hate the narrative voice, which is a bit... unique.) And the cliffhangers are much steeper. And at one point I put Knife of Never Letting Go down and whimpered "I don't like this book any moooore" and picked it up again half an hour later because I had to know what happened.
I've just started the sequel, The Ask and the Answer, in preparation for the final book coming out in a few weeks. I'm pretty sure I'll have to re-read something ridiculously fluffy, like Eyes Like Stars, afterward. XD