Book cover for review: images shows a large green world set against a black backdrop, the bottom part of the planet disappearing into shadow. The black of space is covered in stylised words of noise, barely visible in a slightly different shade of black. Something with a green and white tail is crossing the space in front of the planet. In the centre, over the top of this, is the title 'Piper at the Gates of Dusk' in white.
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Piper at the Gates of Dusk | YA Book Review

By Patrick Ness (Walker Books, 2026)

“We did see it, didn’t we?” Max whispers to me now, both of us watching Pop enter a Noise conversation with the Land, which moves faster than anything either of us could follow.

I nod in a way that says, yes, we definitely did.

“You saw it, too,” he says.

I nod again, kind of rolling my eyes. Of course I saw it. I’m sitting here with a broken arm, aren’t I?

“What was it?” I can barely move my hands with the healing going on, but I grimace and sign, A god.

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