Saturday, June 25, 2011

The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

And so the "Chaos Walking" trilogy continues ... images of holocaust, genocide, war, terrorism ... one of my overriding thoughts was, if we had not had World War Two, and other terrorist events and wars, would this seem unbelievable? And what is so shocking and sad is that, while reading of the horrifying events, they don't seem as unbelievable and incomprehensible as they should, because equivalents have happened.

A moving way of helping young people understand the atrocities of war and life in war-torn countries. A shocking indictment on the human race. A beautifully written story of love and hope in a hopeless, bleak situation.

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