Three books from award-winning fantasy author Patrick Ness are on sale right now. While they’re decidedly not romance, I know many of you are avid fantasy and YA/teen readers, and I didn’t want you to miss a chance to try what looks to be an extraordinary set of books at very low prices.
More Than This
More Than This by Patrick Ness is $1.99. Amanda says she has a few friends who haven’t stopped talking about this book – which is not surprising, given the reviews that are both effusive and very sparse. This book has a 4+ star average (this is YA Fantasy, not romance, fyi) but most reviews say it’s best to go into it with no prior knowledge. So I’m shutting up now.
A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies.
Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive.
How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place?
As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, or perhaps this afterlife?
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The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness is $1.99 digitally. This is YA dystopian thriller/fantasy, and it has a 3.9-star average. It’s also won a pile of awards. Readers at GR are divided about this book, and warn of a cliffhanger at the end, but those who liked it say the story stuck with them long after they finished it.
A dystopian thriller follows a boy and girl on the run from a town where all thoughts can be heard — and the passage to manhood embodies a horrible secret.
Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him — something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too.
With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn’t she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd’s gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.
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A Monster Calls is $1.99. This is an illustrated story by Patrick Ness and Jim Kay, based on an idea from the late Siobhan Dowd. (You can read a very touching review of the book from Frank Cottrell Boyce, a friend of Dowd’s, at the Guardian.) This is middle grade horror/fantasy about death, and the reviews at GoodReads are emotional and positive. It has a 4.2-star average, and most say it’ll make you ugly cry like whoa.
The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.
But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming…
This monster is something different, though. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.
It wants the truth.
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Spellcaster by Claudia Gray is $1.99 at Amazon and BN right now. This is a YA fantasy novel with a romance and some serious witchcraft. It has a 3.6-star average on GR. Readers who enjoyed Gray’s Evernight series liked this one, though while some really liked the unique twist on the magic, others struggled with the multiple POVs.
When Nadia’s family moves to Captive’s Sound, she instantly realizes there’s more to it than meets the eye. Descended from witches, Nadia senses a dark and powerful magic at work in her new town. Mateo has lived in Captive’s Sound his entire life, trying to dodge the local legend that his family is cursed – and that curse will cause him to believe he’s seeing the future … until it drives him mad. When the strange dreams Mateo has been having of rescuing a beautiful girl—Nadia—from a car accident come true, he knows he’s doomed.
Despite the forces pulling them apart, Nadia and Mateo must work together to break the chains of his family’s terrible curse, and to prevent a disaster that threatens the lives of everyone around them.
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I have the Knife of Never Letting Go as well as its two sequels and I haven’t quite gotten around to reading them… the narration I think was sort of weird, and it wasn’t what I was looking for at the time. I’ll have to give it another shot. (The best I can remember to describe it as would be something like the rambling Southern-Drawl-esque style talk of Dustlands, instead of your typical straight-forward narrative structure, which isn’t bad, just something that takes me a while to get used to.)
I also have A Monster Calls and haven’t yet read it for PRECISELY the reason that everyone insists it’s going to make me bawl. I think I got it for free, but I have yet to be in a mood where I really want a good cry.
… I am realizing I have a lot of books on my Kindle I haven’t read. Talk about First World Problems.
A Monster Calls is such a remarkable, wonderful book. It is so, so good. The illustrations are just perfect. I love Patrick Ness. The Knife of Never Letting Go was the first book of his that I read, and it was also great, but if you’re only going to buy one of his books, I highly recommend A Monster Calls. If you like Neil Gaiman, I’d say there’s a good chance you’ll like Patrick Ness.
Everytime I see the cover of Spellcaster, I think I’m seeing a slug. Clearly the cover art is a fail for me!
Leah, I’ll join you in your particular First World Problem. Free Kindle books are addictive!