we just repeat the same mistakes.” As in his preceding books, Ness offers incisive appraisals of violence, power, and human nature, and with the series complete, it’s clear that he has crafted one of the most important works of young adult science fiction in recent years. Trying to overcome their anger, hatred, and fear, each must confront the reasons why “in a place of all this beauty and potential. Todd and Viola, along with the Return, an embittered former Spackle slave, find themselves in positions of increasing power and are faced with a variety of complex and ambiguous moral decisions, any one of which may lead to wholesale destruction. Meanwhile, a convoy of ships is approaching the planet, bringing still more human colonists, though it isn’t clear that there will be anything left to settle when they arrive. He has also been a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, and in 2009 was the first Writer in Residence for Booktrust.
He currently reviews books for The Guardian. Three armies stand poised for battle, one controlled by the murderous but charismatic Mayor a second headed by the equally Machiavellian terrorist, Mistress Coyle the third led by the Sky, leader of the indigenous telepathic race known as the Spackle. Patrick Ness has taught Creative Writing at Oxford University, and written journalism and criticism for the Sunday Telegraph, the Daily Telegraph, and the Times Literary Supplement. The Chaos Walking trilogy comes to a powerful conclusion in this grueling but triumphant tale.
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