Whoa, young adult dystopian literature! This series is even better than The Hunger Games, albeit much more intense, in
depth, and emotionally distressing. In fact, while I have NEVER before in my
whole life cried from reading a book, I teared up a bit near the end of the last
book. Don’t let my intense description so far turn you off of this series. The
books are probably some of the best I’ve ever read. Chaos Walking is the name of the series and the author is Patrick
Ness. The three books are The Knife of
Never Letting Go, The Ask and the
Answer, and Monsters of Men.
I don’t really want to write too much about this series. Just that it is incredible. It’s basically on another planet in the future where there is a virus that causes all people to be able to hear each others’ thoughts. All of them. All the time. Except that women can hear thoughts but their thoughts can’t be heard. The series is technically a young adult book, but I feel that its subject matter is much more adult. Or at least it allows for incredibly adult discussions of some very serious ‘what if?’ situations. Whoa, intense. Have I said that a few times already?
