I am definitely loving this trilogy. Book 2 of the Chaos Walking trilogy picks up just after where book 1 ended, leaving no gap in the action for the reader to fill in.

Once again, the writing style is completely unique, which I love. It’s hard to describe, without actually reading the book. Longer words are spelled out phonetically, it’s repetitive, ‘your’ is replaced with ‘yer’ and other words are slurred like that . . .

That definitely didn’t do it justice.

Anyway, it was great. A bit too violent for my taste, definitely making me wince at some parts, but it was necessary to show the cruelty on all sides. I loved that throughout the entire novel there isn’t a definitive ‘bad guy’ and ‘good guy’. You have to figure it all out for yourself, kind of like reality.

The narration alternations between Viola and Todd. I really like Todd as a narrator, but again, I see how it’s needed to be broken up this way. It’s interesting to see things through Viola’s perspective, after all of this time. Todd’s grown up on this planet, with the Noise. Viola hasn’t, and can hear the men’s Noise yet has none of her own. It’s definitely different to see how she ‘read’s the Noise and interprets it.

There isn’t much of a romantic aspect in this novel, like The Knife of Never Letting Go. Most books these days at least have marginally subtle romance going on, but this focuses more on the characters finding themselves, and the balance of good and evil.

I loved this book as much as I loved the first one, and am itching to get my hands on the third. Thank goodness its already been published! (: I definitely recommend it and give it 5/5 stars.