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MARK SCHULTZ

ZANDER CANNON     KEVIN CANNON

Love learning about life. How do scientists know all this stuff? Some of the science in this book was in too much detail for me and this is in graphic form. The premise is an alien race is studying humanity because they are having problems with inherited diseases because they reproduce asexually. Asexual reproduction is basically cloning. The alien scientist is explaining how sexual reproduction works and its benefits  to his world’s leader.
The last chapter that talks about how knowledge of genetics can be used in the future and how it can tell us about the past is most interesting. A good book to skim.

PATRICK NESS

The New World is a harsh and dangerous place. We don’t know why people left the old world but the first settlers were religious people seeking a simple life. They came to create a utopian society but what they formed if far from perfect. On the New World men’s thoughts are open and broadcast for all to see. They call it Noise. But women’s thoughts are quiet. It makes for interesting and bizarre sexual politics.

“The first thing you find out when your dog learns to talk is that dogs don’t got nothing much to say ” is the first sentence. Highly engaging. The narrator comes from an isolated town where there is no women. They all perished in a plague. He  is the youngest in the community, soon to become an adult. But his “parents” tell him he has to flee days before his adulthood.  They can’t tell him why because then his noise would draw too much attention.

KNIFE is an excellent book; it’s a page turner. But is does have a couple of drawbacks. Length: it did not have to be 500 pages. Ending: books need a definitive ending rather than setting up for the next book in the series.