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Alright. I've spent the best part of this morning finishing up The Ask and the Answer, so I'm here to blog about it before I proceed to other books (most probably The Shining). (note that this is 1/2 comment on the first two books of chaos walking and 1/2 angry letter to that idiot Todd Hewitt.) I don't really like sequels that pick up from a depressing ending. It just makes me feel all depressed and after the first few depressing pages I don't feel like reading it anymore, which is why I haven't read it till now. Inkdeath is an exception, because everybody knows Dustfinger's gonna come back anyway. pffft. Anyway, all through The Knife of Never Letting Go Todd and Viola go running away from everybody and there's the constant promise of Haven Haven Haven, I mean, it's a HAVEN, then whoops! too late gaiz! Now you're all captured by your old enemy whom you've been running away from all along. To be continued! After I got past the depressing parts, it was mostly okay. There were Spackle, whom I like on the mere basis that they're aliens, and Viola was annoying but at least we get Todd sometimes. There are so many failed escape plans that I just don't know anymore pffft. It all leads up to another bloody battle where people die and then we're left hanging pathetically off a cliff again. One thing. Patrick Ness, how many times are you going to make me cry with your books? D: You made me love Manchee then you killed him off. Now it's Davy Prentiss Jr? Why do you do this?! I know it makes the bad guys more evil for killing them, but srsly, the Mayor's creepy enough as he is! More importantly, WHY IS TODD NOT AFFECTED AT ALL. He cried for days for Manchee, but now his friend, supposedly his brother, gets humiliated and shot by his own father, and you just go "Poor bloody Davy" (this is actually the only thing he ever says) and get on with trussing up his father. Moreover, you just pointed a gun at him and used him as a hostage. Right after he defied his father and said he would never ever shoot you because you were his friend and he loved you. And you don't feel guilty. At all. What is wrong with you?! He just bloody died! And you close his eyes and forget about him just like that. I'm going to read Monsters of Men just because I want to see the Spackle army kick butt. Not for you, you heartless bastard Todd. I don't even know why I liked you in the first book. You'd better give me a good cry over Davy after the battle is over and redeem yourself a bit. YOU HEAR ME, PIGPISS?!?? *storms off to the bookstore* |