Books Like The Ask and the Answer
Families who loved The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness often look for books with a similar feel. These 20 recommendations were selected for their similarity in style, theme, and reading level.
Families who loved The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness often look for books with a similar feel. These 20 recommendations were selected for their similarity in style, theme, and reading level.
Reach for this book when your teenager is beginning to question the complexities of authority, the morality of war, or how good people can be coerced into doing terrible things. It is an essential read for those navigating the transition from binary 'good vs. evil' thinking into the messy, gray realities of systemic power and peer influence. Following the events of The Knife of Never Letting Go, Todd and Viola are separated and forced into opposing factions of a brewing civil war. Todd is manipulated into joining a fascist regime, while Viola finds herself among a group of insurgents using terrorist tactics. The book explores heavy themes of complicity, the ethics of resistance, and how information is used to control populations. While the pacing is intense, the emotional core focuses on the struggle to maintain one's humanity when everyone around you is demanding you take a side.
