I have read so many books in my life time, but I could never really figure out my favorite one. Until recently I thought about it and I decided that the series Chaos Walking are are my favorite books. The series has three books The Knife Of Never Letting Go, The Ask and The Answer, and Monsters Of Men.
In the series there are human settlers on a foreign planet. They left earth to find a more peaceful planet to live, but instead they found despair. The planet had aliens named Spackle and a sickness called noise, but only men caught noise. The sickness noise allows others to see and hear their thoughts it is never really quiet. In the first book a boy named Todd has to escape a man named Prentiss who wants Todd to become a man by killing another. He also wants to take over the entire planet with his army. Other settlers fight back but are overtaken, so the only way to escape is to go to a city named Haven. In the second book Todd and Viola are separated from each other. Unfortunately, Todd is captured by Prentiss who treats him like a prisoner and a slave worker. Viola is with the Mysterious group A who wants to scare and start a war with Prentiss by blowing up different places of the city. The city is completely taken over by Prentiss and Mistress Coyle the leader of A wants him out. The third and final book is my personal favorite out of all three books. In this book it is an all out war between A and Prentiss's Army. The problem is that another army is a target of Prentiss; The Spackle armed forces, and it is exactly what Prentiss wanted in the first place. The A wants Prentiss out so that Mistress Coyle can be the leader of the world at last. The Spackle want all the settlers to leave and get revenge on the settlers for their lost brethren in the last war. Todd and Viola believe that they can avoid the inevitable by creating peace with The Spackle. The only way is to make drastic decisions and to stop all the leaders of the armies including The Spackle leader. The meaning behind this book is unique because it basically states that war makes monsters of men. Which to me is entirely true, because war makes them monsters of revenge, hate, and hostility, and that is a sad fact.
These books are special to me because they kept me on the edge of my seat and I was always guessing and wondering what was going to happen next. The books are really well written and descriptive, but most of all I really like the story line in this series. I just really like how everything goes together and the emotion the characters have in the books.

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