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Thursday, August 24, 2023

The Chaos Walking Trilogy

The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, and Monsters of Men 

Fiction by Patrick Ness. 


Todd Hewitt lives in a world where dogs talk. (Although, as he points out, the problem with that is that dogs don't really have much to say.) In fact, every animal talks: sheep, frogs, even bugs! Or, more accurately, all the animals broadcast their thoughts out loud. Unfortunately, this means the thoughts of men are also audible, and that makes for constant Noise in Todd's village of Prentisstown that is hard to endure.

I say "the thoughts of men" because, in Prentisstown, there are no women. Todd's mother, along with every other woman, was killed by a plague twelve years ago that also wiped out half of the men. It was this same sickness, a result of a germ released during the Great War, that caused everyone's thoughts to manifest themselves aloud.

Or at least, that's what Todd has been taught. But is all of it true? As Todd approaches his thirteenth birthday, the date when he, the last boy in Prentisstown, will become a man, he begins to learn that things may not be the way he has always thought they were.

This was an exciting book series that held a lot of surprises. 

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