Wow. What a book. It was hard to read at first since I had to adjust to Todd's dialect. But the more the book progressed the more I was sucked in. Like most YA dystopian fiction, the novel centers on a protagonist on the run from a town where nothing is as he has been taught. But the concept of Noise is unique and intriguing, especially the fact that women don't have it. I laughed because women are often thought to be unreadable whereas men are open books. I also loved how the author made the Noise every level of the man open at once, since that really is what our unconscious is.

Ness's prose is what made the book so enjoyable. He wrote similar to a stream of concious, with runon sentences and short fragments describing what Todd was thinking. It's a different way of writing and could of ended horribly, but I loved it. I could see though, if it irritated other people.

Probably my favorite part was the symbolism, at least the symbolism that I took out of it. I want to write a paper now discussing the book in depth and what everything meant, particularly Aaron who was a really well done character. But I'm on my phone and it's my dads birthday so I should stop reading and be with him. I cannot wait to read the rest of the series.