The planet was colonized 20 years ago and 10 years ago a war with the native species killed all of the women in Prentisstown and destroyed all the other settlements. As if that wasn’t weird enough all of the animals can talk, including Todd’s dog Manchee. Most of the thoughts aren’t clear, just Noise. Todd lives on New World, a colonized planet where all of the men can hear each other’s thoughts. Yes, it was intentional because the novel is written by a 12 year old boy. I was greatly annoyed by the bad spelling and grammar in this novel. (And the short story that takes place afterwards.) (I like books that make me happy, not sad.) It just wasn’t my kind of book, but I got so wrapped up in the characters and the story that I read the entire trilogy. When I read the summery I expected a cute little fun book about kids who can read minds and a talking dog, but what I got was a thought provoking book, which was often sad. I’m not rating this series, because it wouldn’t be fair to the books.
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