Married. Four Cats. Apartment Full of Books.

11:37 pm • 1 June 2012 • 66 notes

I have fallen in love with Patrick Ness. It’s the kind of love that only a reader can have with an author. I will buy every single book he ever writes, I will forgive him his transgressions if he ever writes a bad book, and I will share his name with every bookish person I meet.

The Ask and the Answer is the second book in the Chaos Walking Trilogy. Ness brings the story into a new place by creating one of the best divisions I’ve ever seen. He separates the main characters and puts them in different factions. I can not overstate this. As much as the factions are different they are the same. They both manipulate people on the same emotional level. They both give false choices between freedom and tyranny. It’s the same type of false choices we are given every day. Rarely are they pointed out in such a way. Rarely does a reader get to participate in the emotional fallout.

I’ve not found a series like this in years. I can’t help but beg my followers to read it and tell me how they feel. Please give this one a shot. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Next up, I’m going to read my books for the 2012 Reading Project. For those not in the know, I pick two books on similar themes and read them back to back. June’s choices are food related. A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays and The Well-Kept Kitchen. Both a part of Penguin’s Great Food series.