Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the town in pursuit, the two stumble upon a strange and eerily silent creature: a girl. Who is she? Why wasn't she killed by the germ like all the females on New World? Propelled by Todd's gritty narration, readers are in for a white-knuckle journey in which a boy on the cusp of manhood must unlearn everything he knows in order to figure out who he truly is.

This book is extremely overrated in my opinion; it has the plot to be interesting, but I didn't think it was executed very well. It was just like a massive comedy chase scene that dragged out throughout the whole book really.

I actually gave my physical copy away (that I can remember) to somebody who hadn't read it before in the hope that they would like it better than I did. Every book hits every single person differently so hopefully it can have another effect on somebody else.