And Todd…my precious little muffin….his character arc to far has been awesome.and heart breaking. All our characters feel fully realized and everyone we focus on has a purpose for being there. Ness does a perfect job of writing and orchestrating the violence in these books so it really hits home, and feels quite personal. The action is intense and there is real fear and tension for our main protagonists. You truly come to hate him as you watch how he perfectly manipulates those around him to become who he wants them to be. What is the difference between and terrorist and a rebel? How could all those people follow such a horrible leader? I have to say Mayor Prentiss is a fabulously horrible villain. It takes these political and human situations our of the context of the familiar and forces us to look at them from a different light. This book does so well what science fiction is meant to do. Soon the resistance starts fighting back and everyone is forced to decide what they are willing to do to survive. In the second book in the Chaos Walking trilogy Todd must learn how to survive under the Mayor’s new order and Viola is imprisoned.
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