An intense YA science fiction trilogy set on a colonized planet where all living creatures' thoughts can be heard as Noise. The series follows Todd Hewitt and Viola Eade as they flee Todd's all-male settlement, uncover devastating truths about the planet's colonization and the indigenous Spackle, and navigate a brutal war where every side claims righteousness, building to one of YA's most morally complex and emotionally devastating conclusions.
On a world where a germ has made all thoughts audible as constant Noise, thirteen-year-old Todd is the last boy in an all-male settlement and is about to come of age when he discovers a silent spot in the Noise a girl and is forced to flee everything he knows. Relentless in its pace and unflinching in its violence, the novel is one of YA science fiction's most propulsive and emotionally shattering first installments. The opening of the Chaos Walking trilogy.
Separated and captive in the occupied New Prentisstown, Todd and Viola are placed on opposite sides of a brutal civil conflict between Mayor Prentiss's totalitarian order and the Answer, a resistance movement whose methods grow increasingly extreme. Told in alternating chapters that force both characters and readers to question every side, the novel is one of the most morally complex YA novels published. Darker and more demanding than its predecessor.
The Chaos Walking trilogy concludes as full-scale war breaks out between the settlers and the indigenous Spackle, with Mayor Prentiss and the Answer's leader manipulating the conflict, while Todd and Viola try to prevent a catastrophe and the Spackle find their own voice through a new perspective. The most politically and ethically complex volume of the trilogy, introducing a third narrative voice. An emotionally devastating and morally serious conclusion.