Through their experiences with the possibilities of telepathy, biotechnology, and interspecies relationships, Ness’s protagonists must negotiate with the simultaneous attraction of the fragmented self and its threat to the regulation of conventional manhood, as male characters struggle to sustain their inherited understanding of themselves and the relation between self and other. Patrick Ness’s exploration of normative and transgressive embodiments of masculinity in his dystopian Chaos Walking series for young adults powerfully addresses tensions between power and vulnerability, autonomy and conformity, and concepts of boyhood and manhood. However, little critical attention has been correspondingly dedicated to examining how regimes of masculinity, traditional privileges of male power, and male adolescence are represented and mediated in dystopian fiction for teenagers. This book is an exciting page turner and the best of the three, a fantastic sum-up to the trilogy and it is the best one yet.To date, studies of gender issues in young adult dystopian novels have been dominated by a focus on constructions of female subjectivity, girlhood, and the potential for female empowerment. It is completely unique, something I have never read of before, each fantastic new idea plunging you deep into a great adventure! I rate it eight-and-a-half out of 10 because it was so impossible to put down and beautifully written.
I thoroughly enjoyed it and recommend the whole series to those of both genders who love a thrill and an adventure. The end was the biggest surprise of all, not necessarily your idea of a happily-ever-after ending. It had so many twists and turns that you could not predict what was going to happen.
Monsters of Men was a real thrill to read, with a cliffhanger at the end of nearly every chapter. The war must stop after all doesn't fighting make monsters of men? Todd can't tell whether the mayor is redeemed and if he is, how?
The Spackle are determined not to give in. However, Viola and Todd have other ideas: they must join with the Spackle, a group of people who speak with the Land and in their noise, instead of their mouth, and make peace, or the Land will be destroyed. He wants power and he insists that his bad ways have been redeemed, that Todd is his son, and that having no noise is a good thing. Mayor Prentiss insists that war is the only way forward.
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