He soon discovers the source of the silence: a girl, named Viola. After discovering a patch of silence out in the swamp, his surrogate parents immediately tell him that he has to run, leaving him with only a map of New World, a message, and many unanswered questions. In Prentisstown, Todd has been brought up to believe that Noise is a result of a Spackle-created germ that killed all the women and unleashed Noise on the remaining men. The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008) The Knife of Never Letting Go begins shortly before Todd Hewitt is to come of age and become a man. Protagonist Todd Hewitt (need information) Viola (need information)īook Descriptions 1. A second ship convoy, under the assumption that the first did not survive, arrives at New World at the end of Monsters of Men. However, the germ, present in the planet's atmosphere, posed several problems that halted the development of this vision.

In particular, the colonists aimed to establish a church that would leave behind corruption in favour of purity. New World was originally colonized to make 'a new way of life, one clean and simple and honest and good'. New World is the home of the native, intelligent Spackle as well as giant sea creatures. Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking Book 3) (2010)Ĭhaos Walking is set on a planet called New World, which was colonized by a small group of religiously devout settlers from Old World (possibly Earth) twenty three years prior to the beginning of The Knife of Never Letting Go.The Wide, Wide Sea (Chaos Walking 2.5) (2018).The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking Book 2) (2009).The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking Book 1) (2008).The New World (Chaos Walking 0.5) (2010).

The first novel is narrated entirely by Todd, the second is told through the viewpoints of both Todd and Viola, and the third book is narrated by Todd, Viola and The Return. In the second book, The Ask and the Answer (2009), tensions rise as a civil war between two opposing factions forms, and in the final book, Monsters of Men (2010), the indigenous species of New World rebels against the humans just as a ship full of new settlers is set to arrive on the planet. The Knife of Never Letting Go (2008) begins with Todd being forced to flee his town after discovering a patch of silence, free of Noise. The three novels feature two adolescents, Todd Hewitt and Viola Eade, who encounter various moral issues and high stakes as the planet around them erupts into war. The series is named after a line in the first book: 'The Noise is a man unfiltered, and without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.' The series consists of a trilogy of novels and three short stories.

Theme: Where have all of the women gone to?Ĭhaos Walking is a young adult science fiction series set in a dystopian world where all living creatures can hear each other's thoughts in a stream of images, words, and sounds called Noise.

Genres: Sci Fi Colonization, Dystopia, Science Fiction.

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