Monsters of Men
As a world-ending war surges around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions. The indigenous Spackle, thinking and acting as one, have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs, even as a convoy of new settlers approaches. And as the ceaseless Noise lays all thoughts bare, the projected will of the few threatens to overwhelm the desperate desire of the many.
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.
Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Young Adult Fantasy (2010), Carnegie Medal in Literature (2011), Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of the Year for Fiction (2010)
About the Chaos Walking Series
Books in series order
- 1.The Knife of Never Letting Go(2008)
- 2.The Ask and the Answer(2009)
- 3.Monsters of Men(2009)
- +The New World(2010)
- +The Wide, Wide Sea(2009)
Reading age: 14+ years
This series should be read in order.
This dystopian trilogy is centered on Prentisstown boy, Todd Hewitt, and his companion Viola Eade. The two teenagers journey through New World, searching for answers in an oppressive new society, surrounded by a virus that makes all men's thoughts chaotically audible, and pursued by Prentisstown's dangerous and powerful Mayor.