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Chaos King
Book Review
it will be enjoyed by readers who enjoy imaginative world-building and diverse characters
Chaos King is a young adult novel that is for lovers of fantasy, science fiction, and romance. The story is about Ash, a young person living in a world of uprising and magic.
The book’s description is imaginative, creating a world with unique rules and ideas. The novel has topics of identity and love, as Ash navigates their own life while also uncovering secrets about their world. The characters are interesting, each with their backstory and origin.
Overall, Chaos King is an ambitious novel that will be enjoyed by readers who enjoy imaginative world-building and diverse characters.
About the Book
Ever since he rose up against his father and saved New Anglia from destruction, Ash has been struggling to adapt to his new life. He has nightmares every night, haunted by strange black orbs and his screaming dead mother. Ash is sure she’s trying to warn him that the world is still in danger, and becomes determined to find a way to speak to her again – but communicating with the dead isn’t easy, even for an alchemist as powerful as Ash.
It doesn’t help that violent anti-alchemist sentiment is spreading across New Anglia. When Ash is captured by a radical alchemist group, inspired by his father’s legacy, he must decide if alchemist rights can be trusted in the hands of the Houses, along with his partners Callum and Ramsay – or if Ash must follow the path his father laid for him, and become the leader of an alchemist revolution.
Can Ash keep his relationships together and stop the world from falling apart?
Author
Kacen Callender
Kacen Callender (born 19 September 1989) is a Saint-Thomian-born, award-winning author whose work spans middle grade, young adult, and adult fiction. Their debut middle-grade novel Hurricane Child (2018) earned them the Stonewall Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and their later book King and the Dragonflies won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature in 2020.
Reviewer Profile
Emily, 13
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