I did wonder how we'd be able to sustain such intensity throughout a third installment, even with the arrival of the settler scout ship and a new character or two, as we seemed to have gone as far as we could with the use of Noise to create conflict. And you're so powerfully invested in them, such is the quality of this series, that you read the entire book with your heart in your mouth, and every possible body part crossed. And they make mistakes, the biggest most dangerous mistakes of all.
How is peace best won? By negotiation or battle? Do people deserve second chances? Should you rehabilitate or annihilate? At what point does a principled stand become self-defeating? Love or society? Individual or whole? What price victory? Todd and Viola face them all. This last book in Ness's superlative Chaos Walking series is all about hard choices. A scout ship finally arrives, but it may be too late to prevent a catastrophic war. And then, in the wake of the President's genocide of slaves, the Spackle attack. Between the President's torture and the Answer's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd and Viola - trying to prevent civil war, trying to hold on long enough for the second wave of settlers to arrive. The Answer are fighting back against his authoritarian regime, but they've had to make some terrible choices. There's a cure, but the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves it only for the most loyal. Noise is used as a tool of oppression and as a weapon. The consequences of each action, each word, are unspeakably vast: To follow a tyrant or a terrorist? To save the life of the one you love most, or thousands of strangers? To believe in redemption, or assume it is lost? Becoming adults amid the turmoil, Todd and Viola question all they have known, racing through horror and outrage toward a shocking finale.Noise - visible thought - dominates the lives of everyone on this settler planet.
And as the ceaseless Noise lays all thoughts bare, the projected will of the few threatens to overwhelm the desperate desire of the many.
Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. "This is science fiction at its best, and is a singular fusion of brutality and idealism that is, at last, perfectly human." -Īs a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The riveting Chaos Walking trilogy by two-time Carnegie Medalist Patrick Ness, reissued with compelling covers - and a bonus short story in each book.
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