The Ask and the Answer: 2/3 (Chaos Walking)

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The Ask and the Answer: 2/3 (Chaos Walking)

The Ask and the Answer: 2/3 (Chaos Walking)

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As for the romance between Viola and Todd... Well, I can't say that I love it. It totally makes sense that they are clinging to each other and all that, but their relationship is just unhealthy. And also quite cheesy, but let's focus on the unhealthy part. They made some awful decisions because of one another, and I was sitting there wanting to shake them because it was so frustrating. But in a great way, because it provoked emotion from me. I mean, I get that they're very young, and they have no one else on this bloody planet, but STILL. I want them to just end up being best friends, if they both survive to the end of the series, because I think a strong platonic relationship usually works better. For me, anyway.

Hewitt and Viola rush to stop the President, but he manages to disable them with Noise, capturing Viola again. Despite Hewitt’s betrayal, the President asks him to rejoin him, revealing his tactic for controlling Noise without the cure. Hewitt takes advantage of an incoming ship to point his gun at Davy, hoping it will force the President to let Viola go. Instead, the President kills Davy, who reveals as he dies that he killed Ben, Hewitt’s guardian, and asks for forgiveness. Features a bonus short story, The Wide, Wide Sea. Introducing new characters and set before the events of The Ask and the Answer, it is a story of love and loyalty in a divided world. In 2008, he published the first in his 'Chaos Walking' trilogy for young adults, The Knife of Never Letting Go. It is set in a dystopian world where everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts. This book won the 2008 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Booktrust Teenage Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2009 Carnegie Medal. In 2009, the second book in the trilogy, The Ask and the Answer, won the Costa Children's Book Award. The third book, Monsters of Men, was published in 2010. After Davy’s death, it comes down to a final battle of minds between Todd and the Mayor. Todd figures out how to use his Noise as a weapon against the Mayor by using Viola’s name. With Viola’s help, Todd manages to overpower him, though he doesn’t kill him. Viola then rides out to find the scout ship, hoping to reach them before the army. Todd stays to watch over the Mayor.I am loving the jaunty juxtaposition between deep lyrics and the upbeat tempo when it comes to Ness, aren’t I? This series is rapidly becoming my favourite trilogy of all time. What started as an original science fiction story with "noise" as an interesting character in its own right, has evolved into a grand coming of age saga with high emotion, vicious baddies and a duo that are destined for love so strongly they make Romeo and Juliet look like amateurs. The writing has maintained the same incredibly high standard found in book one. The sense of cliff hanger endings to every chapters has fallen a small degree but that's no bad thing, as it leaves the reader hoping for, and yet dreading, a super epic ending to this volume of the trilogy.

That, to me, sent the ending completely off the rails. I thought Viola forgave him too easily. I thought the psychology and explanation of him retaining his ability to feel things all through the horrors (when he turned his emotions OFF? I couldn't wrap my brain around that contradiction), the assertion that this somehow made him "innocent" where the others were monsters... that just didn't add up to me. Si eres fan del YA que esperas para leer esta trilogía? No, enserio, a que esperas? Porque déjenme les digo que un YA que trate con tanto respeto, fuerza e inteligencia a sus lectores jóvenes no lo encuentras en cada esquina de GR.The whole plot seemed rather exaggerated and abstract. Some concepts (the ask and the answer) were too vague for me to be a source of excitement rather than detached confusion. I get that you need to set yourself apart from all the other dystopian novels out there. It's hard to create something that's still gonna hit it home for your target group if they've been overstimulated for years. Going bat shit crazy on a plot is not going to help with that, though. I imagine Viola, reluctant healer, the worst in fact, bumbling around; Todd working, slaving away. And I imagine their growing closeness despite everything that’s going on around them; despite the forced physical distance between them.

One of the most common subjects brought up during telephone readings are matters of the heart. A love reading is a powerful route to find the answers you seek. Phone readings allow our readers to impart their wisdom to guide you on the right path to take. I loved the first book - The Knife of Never Letting Go. Although I find this second book very interesting, it hasn't yet grabbed me in the same way. I think maybe it's because Manchee isn't around anymore, and also because many of the secrets have already been uncovered. By the end of this I was desperate DESPERATE to know what the outcome will be for all of these people - because to me they are now people. And of course the animals - oh Angharrad you stole my heart.

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But I can't figure out why. Both are series about dystopian futures staring young people trying to overthrow oppressive leaders. Both were published at the same time. Both sold film rights to Lions Gate Entertainment. Both are great. Usually, when I read dystopian YA of substance, I am full of emotions which propel me to inspiration, and I have no problems putting them down in a review. Usually most of those feelings are positive. And just as always, I try to balance my personal feelings with objective overview of the qualities of writing, plot, storytelling and so on... But sometimes, like right now, my emotions let me down and my objectivity starts failing... I am not going to write a real review for this one, because if it continues in the same vain, I will have to repeat myself when I finish the third and last book in the series. I am just frustrated...

The second thing you can get is options, with any troubling situation people need to know what options they have to move on and get a positive outcome. The side door opens and the man who let me in leans out. "Everything all right out there, Lieutenant?"We can fight," Davy says. "We proved that. And instead you got us babysitting animals that are already beat." It’s so difficult to write about this series without spoiling it and I really don’t want to do that because if you haven’t read it before- it’s amazing reading it and being permanently on edge because you really don’t know what is coming when Ness is behind the wheel. But Viola’s perspective was brilliant and I’m glad she no longer had to be supporting role. it's just gorgeous. i hate the things that happen to todd throughout, as he struggles to balance his humanity while giving up portions of it just to stay alive. and although viola's situation seems less dangerous on the surface, it is only more adroitly manipulated, and so her ultimate realization/betrayal is even more powerful for it. The characters in Chaos Walking are some of the best I've ever read. Every character--from Todd and Viola even down to the horses they ride--is powerful and flawed and full of meaning. Todd, Viola, the Mayor are the major players, but there are no minor players. Everyone is important. Many times I'll describe a book as "character driven" or "plot driven." These books are both--enduring characters living through a powerful story.



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