hosted by Loving Books. Basically, a week dedicated to Patrick Ness’s amazing series, which I found out about from Lisa is Busy Nerding.
Anyway, I have no idea if this is some kind of coincidence or what, but…
…the Chaos Walking series comprises today’s Kindle Daily Deal. If you have a Kindle and haven’t read the series yet, the books are 99¢ each! You can’t go wrong!
I don’t mean to turn this into a buy-stuff-from-Amazon post, since I’m not a fan of many of their practices (I’m not, nor have I ever have been, an Amazon affiliate), but Melina Marchetta’s Finnikin of the Rock is currently (as of this writing) on sale for $3.49. And wouldn’t you know, last week was Marchetta Madness at Chachic’s Book Nook.
There are some awesome posts there, by the way, like Trish Doller on how Jellicoe Road influenced Something Like Normal. Which makes me want to read Something Like Normal even more.
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Things That Make Trisha Go, "Hmm" 
It might seem like nothing could match The Hunger Games, but there are already lots of great choices out there.
In fact, the hardest part may not be finding great dystopian series, but trying to decide which one to begin first.
Here's just a sample:
The
Legend series by Marie Lu is set on the flooded coast of former Los Angeles and is told from the perspective of two 15-year-old characters on either side of a civil war. Los Angeles is now the Republic, a nation at war with its neighbors and riddled with a plague. Born of the slums, a boy named Day steals to keep his family alive and rebels against the state police, and June, a military prodigy from an elite family, hunts him down. The two seem to be from different worlds until June's brother is murdered and they discover the sinister truth behind the plague that's killing the nations' poor people. The second book,
Patriot, comes out this fall. Penguin, $17.99, ages 12 and up, 336 pages.
The
Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness is about 13-year-old Todd, the only boy in a town of men where everyone's thoughts can be heard. The town is run by a corrupt mayor who wants to vest control of the planet and wipe out its indigenous alien race and Todd, an orphan, is determined to stop him with the help of Viola Eade, a girl who crash lands on his planet. The first book
The Knife of Never Letting Go came out in 2008, followed by
The Ask and The Answer in 2009 and
Monsters of Men in 2010. Candlewick, $18.99 per hardback, $ 9.99 per softcover, ages 14 and up, 496-608 pages.
Chaos Walking: The Complete Trilogy is now available as an ebook for $29.97.
OH HAPPY DAY!! I may just be the last person in the world to know about this, but I just discovered that there is a prequel to the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness - all around genius and master of words! And not only that... The New World is available for FREE on Amazon!
I have been reading a great variety of books lately, but I always find myself mentally lamenting the fact that there's just nothing and no one even comparable to Todd, Viola, Manchee, and the Mayor. Imagine my ABSOLUTE DELIGHT when I learned about
The New World today.
Thank you, thank you to Super Librarian for bringing it to my attention! And now if you'll excuse me, I need start reading...
Do you ever read a book and think, "Sheesh! I wish I'd written that!" Me too. But I also do that with blogs, and one blog in particular: Forever Young Adult. From their book report grading system to their pop quizzes, FYA is just freaking amazing. (And that's not even mentioning their hilarious, spot-on reviews)
Now, I do not generally write whole posts about a single blog. In fact, I have never done this before. So why now? Well, about a week-ish ago, I finished Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness. This book blew my mind. I spent a really, really long time trying to write a post that could adequately describe how much I love Todd and Viola and Angharrad and Mr. Ness himself. Then today I read HOLY. EFFING. SHIZZ. on FYA and found myself alternately shrieking with laughter and shouting, "Yes! That is what I should have written!!!!"
If you already follow FYA, fabulous! If not, get yourself over there right now. You will be so happy you did!
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Hey, thanks for linking to Marchetta Madness!
Thanks for hosting it and collection such awesome guest posts/links! That interview you quoted and linked to, about how Jonah mates for life? {swoon} God, I love that book. And Taylor and Jonah.
Love that interview! And that was posted only a week ahead of Marchetta Madness. The whole blog event made me reread Jellicoe and then Francesca and Piper.
THIS MAKES ME SO HAPPY.
For so many reasons.
Yay!
Any excuse to reread a Marchetta book is a good one, right?
I’m just so curious to know how the Daily Deal DURING CHAOS WALKING WEEK came about. Coincidence? Is someone at Amazon also a huge Patrick Ness fan? Does someone at Candlewick have Jedi powers or something? But whatever the reason, I’m happy, too.
*nods head*