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The Chaos (2012)

by Nalo Hopkinson(Favorite Author)

3.04 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1416954880 (ISBN13: 9781416954880)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Margaret K. McElderry Books

review 1: I don't like young adult literature. I do, however, LOVE Nalo Hopkinson. I found this narrator completely unlikeable and was annoyed at the incoherence of The Chaos, which features a mash-up of images whose only meaning, as far as I could see, was a vague sense of eerieness with occasional efforts at horror. In that way, The Chaos is much like Gaiman's American Gods - lots of potential, many images that will stick with you and the occasional flash of speculative brilliance that would be fun to develop, but too little impetus for the plot presented. The second half of the book is better as characters develop more motive, but ultimately I just didn't see any purpose to the events in the book and I never really cared what happened to the characters. All that said, it's still ... morea better book Twilight or City of Bones. This is a more mature writer with a better appreciation of the contemporary young woman, more imagination, and more empathy for all of her characters.
review 2: I didn't finish this book. I really wanted to like it. At first, I totally did. The characters felt like they were from a queer world I lived in and a world I didn't see much in YA fantasy lit. POC, QPOC and queer people with disabilities, poetry slams, YES. GR8. I also very much appreciated how body-positive and sex-positive the protagonist was. Really, I liked this book a lot at first. But once the sci-fi fantasy parts started happening... it just got very weird. I could see how some people might like this genre of absurdist apocolyptic sci-fi, and I don't think the writing was bad. I just couldn't keep reading past everyone turning into jell-o with octopus legs, or whatever other weird things were happening. Too nonsensical for me. Around page 150 I just gave myself permission to put it down. less

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