The Wide, Wide Sea

Chaos Walking Series

Author: Patrick Ness

Pages: 39

Published: 2009

Age: 14+

The Wide, Wide Sea is set in the past, at a time before the Spackle War, and we get a first look at the fishing village on the sea where some very important things happen at the end of Monsters of Men.

Best read after The Ask and the Answer but before Monsters.

(again, hints of things to come) - Patrick Ness

About the Chaos Walking Series

Books in series order

  1. 1.The Knife of Never Letting Go(2008)
  2. 2.The Ask and the Answer(2009)
  3. 3.Monsters of Men(2009)
  4. +The New World(2010)
  5. +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.