Reddit mentions of Monsters of Men: Chaos Walking: Book Three

Here are a few of the YA series I have enjoyed:

• The Skinjacker Trilogy by Neal Shusterman. Link to first book, Everlost. Link to second book, Everwild. Link to third book, Everfound. It is a series following a group of teenagers who find themselves stuck in afterlife-on-earth after dying. These books are FANTASTIC; I'd put them on the same level as The Hunger Games.
  
  
• Also, I'd recommend Unwind, also by Neal Shusterman. "In America after the Second Civil War, the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life armies came to an agreement: The Bill of Life states that human life may not be touched from the moment of conception until a child reaches the age of thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, a parent may choose to retroactively get rid of a child through a process called "unwinding." Unwinding ensures that the child's life doesn’t “technically” end by transplanting all the organs in the child's body to various recipients. Now a common and accepted practice in society, troublesome or unwanted teens are able to easily be unwound.
  With breath-taking suspense, this book follows three teens who all become runaway Unwinds: Connor, a rebel whose parents have ordered his unwinding; Risa, a ward of the state who is to be unwound due to cost-cutting; and Lev, his parents' tenth child whose unwinding has been planned since birth as a religious tithing. As their paths intersect and lives hang in the balance, Shusterman examines serious moral issues in a way that will keep readers turning the pages to see if Connor, Risa, and Lev avoid meeting their untimely ends."
  
  
• Peeps by Scott Westerfeld (same guy who wrote Uglies) follows the world as it falls into a unique sort of zombie apocalypse, started by non-fictional a parasite which resides in over half the population's brains.
  
  
• The Chaos Walking Trilogy The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, Monsters of Men follows Todd, a boy trapped in a world completely made up of men who can hear each other's thoughts, finds something he has never seen before: a girl.
  
  

Right now I'm finishing up Y by Marjorie Celona. I won an ARC from the publisher so I figured I should read it now and get a review up on Goodreads before it's released (in Canada anyway) at the end of August. It's good but I'm not quite sure how I feel about it just yet. It's a very dark and at times depressing story about a girl who was left on the steps of a YMCA when she was just hours old and it's the story of her going through foster care and what bad situations can do to a child growing up. She wants to find her biological parents, even if they are deadbeats, just answer the nagging questions of "who she is" while she grows up. It's a debut novel so I'm usually a bit more forgiving with those but I can definitely tell that the writing was improving as the story went on. The characters seemed to become richer and more alive later in the book. It's a pretty serious and emotionally draining book at times but it's really good.

I think after this one I am going to finally get around to reading Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness, book 3 in the Chaos Walking trilogy and and get that finished up. I started it a few months ago and then got into some other books so I didn't read the third one. Looking forward to get this one done. I loved the other two.

I'm going to try and set a To Be Read list for the next couple of months. I'm hoping I don't get too distracted by finding new books that grab my interest and stick to the list. I have some good ones lined up I think, some good ones coming out this Fall that I've got my eye on.