Apt Title

“Worst is the one who knows better but does nothing.” Truth.

26.12 Monsters of Men

This is the final book in the Chaos Walking trilogy and I whipped through it just like the others. I mean, 608 pages in three days! I know I am reading faster but goodness. After completing the trilogy, I wouldn’t hesitate to whole-heartedly recommend it.

Again, it starts exactly where the last book left off and there is almost zero rehashing of past events.  There is no way to read these books as stand alones.  In the first we had one POV, in the second two, and in the third three.  There are also now three sides to the war, and things don’t get much better.  War makes monsters out of men and we see it all, and understand it all as well.  Everyone thinks they are right, or have been the most wronged; everyone wants power or likes the way it feels. It is how we know war is, and yet it happens. Over and over. Here we are privy to all the sides, and so the reader remains divided and that is a wonderful gateway to some really great discussion. 

There are a few definite good guys, and a few clear bad guys but the majority are in between, as in life.  Todd is really an amazing protagonist because he is so stuck in between he shows us all sides of everything and how easy it is to flip flop and regret your actions, but also to get up and try again.  This book, like the second, is violent, and for me that is bothersome, but who am I kidding?  This is the world we live in, and maybe some people might learn how to do better from Todd.