(Spoilers, but only until the very bottom)
I am speechless on this book honestly. It took me quite a while to get into the rhythm of this book mind you, but was it one hell of a ride once the world building was done and the action begun! This book had been on the "Should I read this?" part of my brain for a while because I attempted to pick up this book but put it down after the first few pages. Thanks to a lovely friend of mine who happens to love Patrick Ness, I decided to give this book an honest, second go to see if It's good as she had anticipated it to be. And I can say that this book did own up to all the talk! It provided such a nice mixture of everything. The characters practically marched out the page, hell! I could practically hear them yelling through the pages as well! The use of different text to reflect how the noise would "sound" like was just remarkable! Overall, this book is meant to be immersed into because the use of writing in an 'accent' is what makes it seem so real, once thats overcome you just jump right into the world of Todd and Manchee. I would HIGHLY recommend to anyone willing to read something completely new and adventurous.

**I will be putting spoilers below this so you have been warned**
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Okay, so honestly I did not expect for anyone to die in this book. Honestly! I don't know why, having background knowledge on Ness' work but I sure did hope. What hit me the most, and most likely, anyone whose read this book felt pain in their heart when Manchee was killed. Like come on! I grew to love Manchee only to have him taken from me?
But honestly that's all I wanted to discuss involving spoilers. The ending was pretty shocking too, especially when viola was shot and practically dying but I won't go on to that because obviously there's two more books to go so I won't delve into that.