Monsters of Men - (Chaos Walking) 2nd Edition by Patrick Ness (Paperback)

About the Book

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.

Book Synopsis

"Harrowing, heartbreaking, and brutally human . . . a masterpiece of speculative fiction and social commentary." --Neal Shusterman, New York Times best-selling author of the Arc of a Scythe trilogy

The international bestseller and masterpiece of science fiction

As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face unspeakably vast consequences of each action, each word, each monstrous decision. The indigenous Spackle are mobilizing to avenge their murdered kin, ruthless human leaders are defending their factions, and a convoy of new settlers is approaching. All the while, the ceaseless Noise continues laying all thoughts bare--and the projected will of the few threatens to overwhelm the desperate desire of the many.

Review Quotes

Inventive, gut-wrenching, and all-consuming, this is an unforgettable coming-of-age reading experience.
--Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Coldwire

There is so much to love about the remarkable Patrick Ness! Above all, his deep, ferocious respect for young readers.
--#1 New York Times best-selling author Libba Bray

An epic journey through both a sci-fi world of extraordinary imagination and an emotional landscape of gripping intensity.
--Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Hugo Award-winning Children of Time series

Intelligent, compelling, and utterly devastating, Chaos Walking is one of the seminal YA series of this century. No one gets you in the feels like Patrick Ness.
--Juno Dawson, author of Her Majesty's Royal Coven

A triumph. --The Times (London)

Readers shouldn't expect to get much sleep until they've turned the final page. --The Wall Street Journal

A powerful conclusion. . . . Grueling but triumphant.
--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

This is science fiction at its best
--Booklist (starred review)

This is a complex and engrossing work that series fans will devour.
--School Library Journal

About the Author

Patrick Ness is the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy, as well as Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody and it sequel, Chronicles of a Lizard Nobody: The Hat of Great Importance. He wrote the #1 New York Times bestseller A Monster Calls (inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd), which won both the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was made into a major motion picture for which he wrote the screenplay. He is also the author of More Than This, Release, Different for Boys, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and Burn. His many accolades include two Carnegie Medals, an Olivier Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the BookTrust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children's Book Award. Patrick Ness lives in Los Angeles and London.