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The electrifying finale to the multiple award-winning trilogy, Chaos Walking.
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“War,” says the Mayor. “At last.” Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. As the battles commence, how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they’re so hopelessly outnumbered? And if war makes monsters of men, what terrible choices await? But then a third voice breaks into the battle, one bent on revenge… The electrifying finale to the award-winning Chaos Walking trilogy, Monsters of Men is a heart-stopping novel about power, survival, and the devastating realities of war.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The End Is Nigh,
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This review is from: Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking) (Hardcover)
It is here... and the end is in sight...I am slowing down and the sense of doom and grief are growing and yet these exhilirating books are a joy to read...a joy to meet Todd and Viola and Manchee and Angharrad and, of course, the Spackle/Land. Full of moral dilemmas, the thin line between good and evil, love and loss, heartbreak and suffering...this the last is perhaps the most human of them all! In classic Science Fiction mode it delivers powerful ideas and insights into the human condition at the same time as creating a believable and complex alien environment.
Read these books, your life will be enriched!
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Relentless, unflinching: just like life,
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This review is from: Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking) (Hardcover)
I only finished this a few minutes ago. It's 4am. Not many books keep me up this late; each book in this stunning trilogy has managed it.
The secret is the naturalistic narration. Breathless, sincere. Real. Ness knows these kids, it's almost as if he can hear their thoughts on command and he's just a channel for their voices, for the story. There's war. There are LOTS of explosions. There's probably more death than the second book had. Definitely, in fact. There are epic confrontations and earth shaking battles aplenty. But that's not what this book - this series - is about. This is about empathy, and it has been from the start. Noise lets you know how other people feel. What damage can that do a person if they know exactly how their cruelty felt? What chance at redemption can that bring? It's a heady theme, and fortunately, it suits the tale Ness wants to tell perfectly. So, I want to keep this short because I'm tired and still sort of recovering from the pace of the book. Would I recommend it to you? You probably read the first two if you're looking at this. In that case, hell yes. If you're here because you saw that a new book was being released and haven't read the first two, check those out and come back when Todd and Viola have slipped into your head.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Finally finished ...,
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This review is from: Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking) (Hardcover)
FINALLY finished the "Chaos Walking" trilogy. We have been asked to read this book for a course in Children's Literature, and I thought I should read the first two books in the series. It was far from the most enjoyable read. The ideas were good, and the characterisation as well. But I considerably preferred "The Hunger Games", which was also overlong. But not overlong like this - it reached the stage where I was thinking "just get on with it". It wasn't even that it felt like it you gained in extra description or knowledge of the characters - the length was just twist after twist after twist. I have a theory that people should be able to write a story in 350 pages. Unfortunately, publishers think differently - if a book's worth publishing, it's worth spending 500+ pages over. And since neither of the first two books actually really resolve, this story is told over a nigh unbelievable 1600 PAGES!! That's 50% more than War and Peace!!Other issues I had with it: - the suspension of disbelief required was considerable (in a lot of cases, I suspect that it's this which marks a book out as "children's fiction"). There were too many important questions about the planet and the people which were left unexplained; - cannon fodder. I really hate it when people exist in a book simply to be killed off, and these books were full of them; - [MINOR SPOILER] Todd's mum's diary. It's presented as being the key to understanding ... well, everything, really ... but it turns out not to be. It felt as though Ness knew where he was going to start and end, but then just improvised everything in between, taking as long over it as he could. All sorts of big issues were raised that could be discussed - race, gender, tolerance, right and wrong - but there were no clear answers, and I felt I was left with a vague, pantheistic "wouldn't it be nice if we could all get along".
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