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Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking) (edition 2010)

by Patrick Ness (Author)

Series: Chaos Walking (3)

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As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
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Title:Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking)
Authors:Patrick Ness (Author)
Info:Walker Books (2010), Edition: First Printing, 624 pages
Collections:Your library, Currently reading, To read
Rating:****
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I’m really impressed with how this series turned out. The ending was completely unexpected for me. This book will leave you shocked and amazed. I am not going to do this review justice.

I was nervous starting this book because I had really high expectations. If you’ve read the first two books you’d have high expectations too. Thankfully this ending was better than I could have thought possible. Reading it was exhausting! There were so many emotions being thrown everywhere. I had no idea who I liked and disliked except Todd and Viola, obviously. You get so attached to them that every single emotion they feel, you feel it too. I loved both these characters because they made mistakes and felt guilt and just learned from everything they did. The author is amazing at writing about these characters. This book is really deep without being obvious. It’s just crazy! The ending was shocking and terrifying and I almost had to stop reading for a bit, but it was so amazing!

If you haven’t started this series yet, get on it! ( )
  chelssicle | Nov 14, 2024 |
I devoured this book in one big sitting. It helps that most of the family have a cold so I could justify just sitting their pouring over every word.I think I waited to so long to read the final book because I wasn't ready to let Todd and Viola - or Manchee (let's be honest, I love that little guy!) - go. I wanted to know that they were still out there, somewhere, getting ready for their last battle, hopefully their last war - before they could move on to what they could be.

And I'm so glad I finally picked this up and completed their story.

This final installment of the Chaos Walking Series does not disappoint!! The final struggle for Todd and Viola to go through - to try to right the world that is always working against them - and make it a world worth being together in.

Although this book is full of the same chaos of war, it's new wars and darker wars - but a new world emerges in the midst of the ashes of the current war that gives you hope to keep reading and find out the ending.

And try to understand.... was it worth it all or was the price too high to pay? ( )
  Trisha_Thomas | Nov 13, 2024 |
UGH. I was so tempted to give this 2 or 2.5 stars but in the end decided that its ambition and strong first part of the trilogy wouldn't allow me to rate it lower. I still have a hard time believing the unusually high ratings of this third book, especially over the first one. It wasn't as good and the ending was...meh. In fact, it wasn't really an ending. It was a cop-out with very little resolution. A tragedy, really.

Oh well. Read the first book of the series at least. ( )
  remjunior | Oct 2, 2024 |
2.5
  greer.d | Jul 30, 2024 |
non letto
  LLonaVahine | May 22, 2024 |
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Who’s in the bunker?

Who’s in the bunker?

Women and children first

And the children first

And the children

I laugh until my head comes off

I swallow ’til I burst

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"I hope I'd make the right choice, but, Viola, it is a choice. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that's not how a person with integrity acts." (p. 182)
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The electrifying finale to the multiple award-winning trilogy, Chaos Walking. "War," says the Mayor. "At last." Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. As the battles commence, how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they're so hopelessly outnumbered? And if war makes monsters of men, what terrible choices await? But then a third voice breaks into the battle, one bent on revenge... The electrifying finale to the award-winning Chaos Walking trilogy, Monsters of Men is a heart-stopping novel about power, survival, and the devastating realities of war.
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Not a dry eye in
the house as Chaos Walking
trilogy concludes.
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Peace with the Spackle
or does New World equal Old
World, but with new foes?
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