This is among the best YA science fiction novels of the year. What matters is picking yourself up again.”) This superb novel, which ends with a gripping cliffhanger that sets up the third Chaos Walking book, uses a brilliant cast of well-developed characters and its singular setting and premise to present a provocative examination of the nature of evil and humanity. (Viola later reminds Todd, who has undertaken some shocking and cruel responsibilities while working with the mayor, “We all fall but that's not what matters. The Ask and the Answer starts a few hours after the end of The Knife of Never Letting Go. Patrick Ness is the award-winning and bestselling author of A Monster Calls, More Than This, The Rest of Us Just Live Here and Release. Separated, the friends are caught up on opposite sides of a horrific, morally ambiguous civil war, with Todd coming close to madness. My rating: 4 of 5 stars What this book is about (assuming you have read The Knife of Never Letting Go). The second book in a series called Chaos Walking, it follows the events of the novel The Knife of Never Letting Goand precedes Monsters of Men.
Having escaped from the dystopian, all-male Prentisstown, teenagers Todd and Viola have fled to the city of Haven, only to discover that Prentisstown's mayor, a powerful and charismatic sociopath, has gotten there first, intent on controlling the entire planet. The Ask and the Answer is a 2009 work of science fiction for young adults written by Patrick Ness. Picks up where its predecessor left off and will have readers racing to its painful conclusion. Patrick Ness reads from The Ask and the Answer - YouTube 0:00 / 2:41 Patrick Ness reads from The Ask and the Answer MonstersofMen 164 subscribers 112 5.6K views 12 years ago Patrick. Candlewick, 18.
This grim and beautifully written sequel to Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go
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