I adored Patrick Ness’s The Knife of Never Letting Go and am so pleased that he is coming to the CBI Conference next May. – details here
The sequel is due around conference time as well. Educating Alice has the scoop. It’s made me even more impatient to get my hands on the book.
She’s taken these details from the book jacket.
Fleeing before a relentless army, Todd has carried a desperately wounded Viola right into the hands of their worst enemy, Mayor Prentiss.
Immediately separated from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is forced to learn the ways of the Mayor’s new order.
But what secrets are hiding just outside of town? And where is Viola? Is she even still alive? And who are the mysterious Answer?
And then, one day, the bombs begin to explode. . . .
The second thrilling volume in the Chaos Walking trilogy, The Ask and the Answer is a tense, shocking, and deeply moving novel about resistance under the most extreme pressure.
Oh no—you’re right, that DOES sound like a must-read! I’ll need to live another hundred years to read everything I want to, but perhaps this goes near the top of the pile…
Thanks for the links too!
Put it straight to the top of the pile Susan – really you won’t regret it- it’s a terrific read although the end is so cliff hangery that it might be worth postponing the read until the sequel is at least in sight!