
This is among the best YA science fiction novels of the year. What matters is picking yourself up again.”) This superb novel, which ends with a gripping cliffhanger that sets up the third Chaos Walking book, uses a brilliant cast of well-developed characters and its singular setting and premise to present a provocative examination of the nature of evil and humanity.

Soon the resistance starts fighting back and everyone is forced to decide what they are willing to do to survive. (Viola later reminds Todd, who has undertaken some shocking and cruel responsibilities while working with the mayor, “We all fall but that's not what matters. The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness 4/5 Stars In the second book in the Chaos Walking trilogy Todd must learn how to survive under the Mayor’s new order and Viola is imprisoned. The book The Ask And the Answer was written by author Patrick Ness Here you can read free online of The Ask And the Answer book, rate and share your impressions in comments. Separated, the friends are caught up on opposite sides of a horrific, morally ambiguous civil war, with Todd coming close to madness. The Ask and the Answer starts a few hours after the end of The Knife of Never Letting Go. Having escaped from the dystopian, all-male Prentisstown, teenagers Todd and Viola have fled to the city of Haven, only to discover that Prentisstown's mayor, a powerful and charismatic sociopath, has gotten there first, intent on controlling the entire planet. My rating: 4 of 5 stars What this book is about (assuming you have read The Knife of Never Letting Go). The second book in a series called Chaos Walking, it follows the events of the novel The Knife of Never Letting Goand precedes Monsters of Men. Picks up where its predecessor left off and will have readers racing to its painful conclusion. The Ask and the Answer is a 2009 work of science fiction for young adults written by Patrick Ness.

This grim and beautifully written sequel to Ness's The Knife of Never Letting Go
