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Most writers have the humility to put their reviews on a separate "reviews" page, but I haven't got around to that yet, so you'll just have to put up with an ego run wild (not really; I'm still delighted that people are even reading it, seriously. And what nice comments they're leaving on the Visitors page).

So there's a very nice one at HackWriters and another at the Irish Times on 31 May (though you need a subscription to see the website).  And then there was this in the June issue of the Literary Review (not available online so I'm quoting here from reviewer Philip Womack):

"Sometimes you come across a children's book of startling and poetic beauty:  The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness is one such.  It is brilliantly evocative, tough, unsentimental, and creates its own, convincing argot that hurls the reader right into its world ...  This amazing book will, I hope, become a staple of children's literature, bravely dealing with loss, fear, and an adolescent's burgeoning sense of self, whilst being at the same time enormously compelling."

As they say in England, phwaor!  No pressure on the second book, then.  I'll just be in the other room with my head under the duvet.

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