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Titans of Chaos (Chronicles of Chaos #3)
Titans of Chaos completes John Wright's The Chronicles of Chaos. Launched in Orphans of Chaos--a Nebula Award Nominee for best novel in 2006, and a Locus Year’s Best Novel pick for 2005--and continued in Fugitives of Chaos, the trilogy is about five orphans raised in a strict British boarding school who discovered that they are not human.
The students have been kidnapp...more
Mass Market Paperback, 400 pages
Published
March 4th 2008
by Tor Fantasy
(first published 2007)
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Talk about a let-down to a series. While I enjoyed the first two books, the last fell apart. The first half of the book was generally pointless dicking around, while the entire last half of the book was the climactic action sequence that redefined "overblown" while at the same time being an emotional punt, since by this point I didn't care very much about the characters at all. Their relationships, interesting in the first book, never truly developed, and it was fairly obvious by the l...more
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Oh, my, God. Although I didn't pick up all of the Orphans of Chaos books at one time to read straight through, I wish I had. John C. Wright writes several paradigms of reality and their associations with one another at the same time FLAWLESSLY. I don't want to give any particulars away because I really want readers to try these books. Although you do not have to be a genius to figure out all of what he is talking about, trying to keep up with it all was challenging in a fun way. I almost ha...more
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I feel I must justify the falling stars for this series. The wonderful and fascinating ideas about the paradigms of the main characters rocked, all the way through, and never got boring. But there just wasn't much variation in the level of tension through the 2nd book and especially through the last. Not that they were boring... the kids were on their runaway quest from the end of the first book, and it never let up. There was never a good place to put the book down, and it just wasn't sustainab...more
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"The Chronicles of Chaos" 3 volumes. - John C. Wright
Recipe:
Equal parts Michio Kaku, Bullfinch's Mythology and William S. Burroughs; fold in an equal measure of J.K. Rowling and dust with a liberal amount of Beatrix Potter.
This series will bend your mind like a prism bends light. Well written, great characters and some mild semi-adult situations. The only thing I had a touch of an issue with was the almost non-stop adventure, danger and action of vol. 3...more
Recipe:
Equal parts Michio Kaku, Bullfinch's Mythology and William S. Burroughs; fold in an equal measure of J.K. Rowling and dust with a liberal amount of Beatrix Potter.
This series will bend your mind like a prism bends light. Well written, great characters and some mild semi-adult situations. The only thing I had a touch of an issue with was the almost non-stop adventure, danger and action of vol. 3...more
Overall a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy, which I mentioned previously as really being just one big book.
Probably would have worked better as 2 volumes-- the inevitable growth and victory of the protagonists moves along a bit too incrementally. Or there could have been more variety in their adventures, somehow, in order to merit the length.
or perhaps I just read through these two quickly... still, a satisfying and enjoyable way to spend the time if not the most ul...more
Probably would have worked better as 2 volumes-- the inevitable growth and victory of the protagonists moves along a bit too incrementally. Or there could have been more variety in their adventures, somehow, in order to merit the length.
or perhaps I just read through these two quickly... still, a satisfying and enjoyable way to spend the time if not the most ul...more
The cover of this book touts it as "The Fantastic Climax of The Chronicles of Chaos." Most series, in their final book, spend a decent portion on the final build to the climax, which can sometimes be a letdown for the amount of build-up afforded it. Not so here. The climatic battle to which the children have been "destined" the entire trilogy takes up a good portion of this final book. And set aside all your preconceptions of where he could have gone and what he could have do...more
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Susan Cooper and Madeline L'Engle fans
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This is a fantastic series. It's the perfect meld between Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising series and Madeline L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time series. I'm not a sci-fi fan, but the use of mathematics, philosophy, and science was outstanding. As you wonder about the true nature of reality, paradigms begin to emerge; some fit, some don't. However, each paradigm is equally worthy in describing the experienced phenomena. Is reality made of atomic particles which are eually useful and interchangeable? O...more
Started this trilogy, figured I should finish it. Parts of it are fairly good world building, but the whole of it tends to be hard to keep track of unless you have a fairly sophisticated flow chart for the names and paradigms and powers that populate the books. It was decent, though I found the sexuality themes less than appealing. A quick read with lots of action, perhaps a little more "chaotic" than I like but what the heck, that was the one of the themes of the book.
It would have worked better as 2 volumes, if I hadn't had all 3 at my disposal I might have been annoyed, but the first book was the best. I caught myself skimming thru scientific gobbelty gook. I would have liked it more if I were younger tho I probably would have skimmed over more too.
Interesting but Meh
Interesting but Meh
This was an honest three-star book in my opinion, not something that would have been given five stars if I hadn't had to knock points off. Chapters upon chapters of complex action scenes got very old very quickly.
Amazing final instalment in the trilogy. The final scene is absolutely perfect and 100% satisfying. It felt as good as the final scene in the Bourne Ultimatum movie, for those who have seen it.
Not quite as enjoyable as the first two books in the series, but still quite good, with intriguing concepts of super-powers/magic/gods based on perception and manipulation of differing aspects of the universe and other dimensions. For that aspect alone it's worth reading, but it's a really good story too.
It kinda fizzles. The author tries to top everything by just piling things higher, larger aries, more powerful greek gods, it ends feeling like Dragonball Z, including the constant "dying".
Anyway, it was a fun series.
Anyway, it was a fun series.
Check your copies...
mine has "Titans of Chaos" on the cover page, while its spine says "Fugitives of Chaos"...
mine has "Titans of Chaos" on the cover page, while its spine says "Fugitives of Chaos"...
Wow, I thought this series had such promise, but I have to admit I was fairly underwhelmed by Titans of Chaos. The "kids" discovered and got a handle on their powers in the previous volumes. The excitement and novelty of their powers (for me) had worn thin by the final book. The action was somewhat of a jumbled mess--often I wasn't quite sure who was fighting whom, what powers nullified others, why there seemed to be wave after wave of opponents attacking the kids. I came very clos...more
A very nice sci-fi story. It's not high literature, but is well written and entertaining.
The final installment in the trilogy makes a decently satisfying wrap-up. Wright relies a little too much on extended explanatory dialogue between characters to help his readers make sense of the story, but the intertwined fantasy and science-fiction elements continued to be interesting.
Waiting to get the first two in the series.
8.5/10
Titans of Chaos is basically one long fight scene between the five orphans and the rebellious god who sought to control them. I was kind of amazed by how Wright was able the maintain the pace of the battle through a book length story and give each character a chance to shine and show-off. Whatever you may think of Wright's politics, you have to appreciate his skill with pacing and narrative structure.
So, I sucked this trilogy down like a crazy person and dang was it great. Lots more battling in this book, as the characters come into themselves, which I love.
A surprising bonus: up until the very last two pages of the third book, it is reasonably unclear which of the two romantic interests the main character will choose. It was a nice change from the norm.
A surprising bonus: up until the very last two pages of the third book, it is reasonably unclear which of the two romantic interests the main character will choose. It was a nice change from the norm.
Clunky ending to an otherwise interesting series. The author kept trying to build to a climax or a real resolution but he'd written himself into multiple corners by the second book and never made any attempt at getting out. Could have done without the very clunky and dated "sexual awakening" plotline. Another case of a very cool idea mishandled, IMHO.
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Those who like innovative plotlines that don't delve into cliches
A good wrap-up for this series, with some really interesting scenes. For some reason I felt like something in the ending could have been a bit more satisfying, even though I can't put my finger on what was missing. Really interesting characters, though, and one of the most unique plotlines and settings that I've read in a very long time.
truely anticlimatic ending to this trilogy.
I really liked the first two books of this trilogy, but I was disappointed with this one. It was just too hard to keep all the gods, paradigms and curses straight.
Fantastic finish to the series, though I would rate Fugitives of Chaos (book 2) as the best of the three. See my review of that book for more information.
The continuation of Fugitives of Chaos which covers the coming of age of the orphans
and their final battle with Hermes and his minions.
and their final battle with Hermes and his minions.
Not as good as the second book but just as good as the first but best when read after the first and second books in that order.
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John C. Wright (John Charles Justin Wright, born 1961) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy novels. A Nebula award finalist (for the fantasy novel Orphans of Chaos), he was called "this fledgling century's most important new SF talent" by Publishers Weekly (after publication of his debut novel, The Golden Age).
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