Review: Monsters of Men

Title: Mon­sters of Men

Author: Patrick Ness

Pub­lisher: Can­dlewick

Date (to be) Pub­lished: Sep­tem­ber 2010

Syn­op­sis: (from author’s website)

Three armies march on New Pren­tis­stown, each one intent on destroy­ing the others.

Todd and Viola are caught in the mid­dle, with no chance of escape.

As the bat­tles com­mence, how can they hope to stop the fight­ing? How can there be peace when they’re so hope­lessly out­num­bered? And if war makes mon­sters of men, what ter­ri­ble choices await?

But then a third voice breaks into the bat­tle, one bent on revenge…

Why Did It Come From? Ama­zon

Why Did I Choose It? I’d read the first two in the series.

My Review:

Sadly this book was some­what of a dis­ap­point­ment.  I really wanted to love it as I enjoyed the first two immensely, but this book just kept drag­ging on and on.  It was inter­est­ing to see things from the point of view of Viola, Todd and the Spackle, but out­side of that, I didn’t really care what hap­pened to any of the characters.

The end­ing when it finally did come about was very pre­dictable, overly sappy, and just didn’t leave you with the same feel­ings the first two did.

I do sug­gest you read it if you’ve read the first two just to find out what hap­pens, and to learn more about the Spackle, but don’t expect to fin­ish it and feel this was an awe­some series.