The Knife of Never Letting Go

???We are the choices we make.???

Anyone I've talked to while reading this book has heard this already but I'm just going to say this again: after the whole Hunger Games, Divergent, Matched etc. times of dystopian trilogies I became... slightly allergic. It just felt like the arc of all of these books were becoming too predictable and it just made them really boring to me.

So starting this book I was kind of anticipating maybe getting that feeling too, and I know this is still only the first book so things might change and yada yada but, let me just say, that I was really really pleasantly surprised by the different kind of storytelling we get here.

It's not dystopian, exactly. It's kind of sci-fi because it's about a group of people going to a new planet because earth is full and also messed up and trying to build a new life there. So already, we start out not dealing with a controlling government but rather it's exploring what people do when there's no government, and it's about how they make sense of life and power.

Todd was really annoying at times but also like... he's fourteen. So I try to forgive him for being kind of dumb and making stupid decisions. I think Viola is really cool and I hope we're going to get to know more about her and the previous part of her life in the next book(s). Manchee is the freakin best I love animal companions.

Spoiler WHY CAN'T AARON JUST FUCKING DIE?????????????????????????? HE KEEPS SHOWING UP even after they tear his face off it's so ANNOYING. also when manchee died i lowkey died that was so sad.