4/07/25 - Finished The Ask and the Answer, started Monsters of Men

 Hello, feasyheads!

It's the start of yet another week. If only it was already Friday.

This weekend and today, I've made amazing progress in the Chaos Walking series. I finished The Ask and the Answer, and started Monsters of Men, the final book in the trilogy. Over the weekend, I went to two different libraries and got a lot more books. Next week, I'm starting Dune, when I won't be here, and I have all the books in the series but the second. I got it on hold on Libby. Of course it has to be the second book. 

All right, time for the review of The Ask and the Answer:

Chaos Walking in general is a series that I really like. It's definitely more YA, and the language, coming from Todd, who never learned to read (and spell) is pretty simple. However, there's just something about the series that I find incredibly captivating and my desire to keep reading had me cracking open the book over the weekend, which I usually never do. 

The narration, while simple, is insanely vivd and all of Todd's emotions and thoughts are wonderfully depicted. Okay, enough about the writing style. The setting is really interesting. A new planet where humanity has settled looking for a paradise? Not on every page but every so often we are reminded that this is a very sci-fi book.

I personally don't really like romance in books, and Patrick Ness has created Todd and Viola's deep bond (they are willing to kill for one another) without making it all overly romance-ey.

The book gets an 8.95 out of ten. Just like in many good books, bad things happen pretty often to the character, Wally is past the stage where everything works out perfectly for the main character!

Overall Chaos Walking is a series I'd recommend to many different kinds of people. 

That concludes the rating.

While in one of the libraries, I also checked out Metroid Prime Remastered (A Nintendo Switch video game). Feel free to drop a comment if you're interested in my review of the game. I'm thinking it could be a weekend thing.

Have a great day!

Good morning/afternoon/evening/night/3:00 AM,

Uncle Wally