★★★★★★★★☆☆[8/10]⏩ You crash landed on a strange planet. ⏩ Your parents are dead. ⏩ You have no means to contact the mother ship. ⏩ You don't know what is more frightening- not finding any signs of life or coming into contact with a strange civilization- humans, no less. But, Viola, you'll meet someone. Yes, you'll. 

This review and other non-spoilery reviews can be found @The Book PrescriptionI just read this one before jumping into “The Ask and the Answer”. This is Viola’s back story and it was kind of helpful for the story. It was short and didn’t add much to the story but I don’t regret reading it. It just wasn’t as awesome as book 1.

A nice little addition to the trilogy which is easy to read and interesting. I’m not sure why it took me so long to know it existed.

This was so good!! I held my breath for most of it and I’m glad we find out more about how Viola came to New World and what happens to her family. This series is just great!

*** 3 ***I decided to start this series with this very short prequel novella. We met Viola and her parents, space traveling to a new planet ahead of the rest of their colony, all preparing to settle on a planet after living in space for a long while. Viola is only 13 and she acts like it. I have to hope that after the devastating occurrences in this story she will grow and develop as a character in the series to follow. Let see where we go from here 🙂.

What a tear-jerker! Gahhh

AAAAHHH This was sooo good! Okay, so when I found out about it I thought it was a whole book, so I totally flipped out, but then I found out it was a free short story … Well, still pretty exciting! Nonetheless, I LOVED IT. DUH. I wish it had been longer! It was really cool to find out a little more about Viola's life before she met Todd. Reading it was kind of painful though, considering I knew all along how her parents were going to die and all. Her mom's death scene was sooo sad :'( Patrick Ne...

I'm more interested in Viola's story than in Todd's.

Viola was one of the more interesting characters in The Knife of Never Letting Go, so it was nice to learn a little bit about her backstory in this novella. She definitely has a more eccentric narrative than Todd, so it's a shame we didn't get much of that in the main series. I wondered about how she and her parents travelled to the new planet, and so it was enjoyable to follow a quick recount of their space journey.

Ιnteresting short story about Viola past!

last quickie, i promise...after this, i will stay for breakfast and all that. meet the folks.this is a tiny story, filling in the gaps of viola's life before crash-landing in the swamp, meeting todd, and having terrible and wonderful adventures. it's kind of heartbreaking, seeing her here, and knowing what lies ahead for her, you know? it's nice to get a sense of her family dynamic before she is so roughly removed from it, but i can't help myself from wanting a whole lot more from these characte...

Set before the events of The Chaos Walking Trilogy, The New World is a fabulous short story that makes for a great introduction to the series. I loved Chaos Walking Trilogy. I don't think I've ever read a better YA trilogy. EVER. Patrick Ness is a wonderful storyteller. His writing is electrifying and insanely compelling. I recommend this short story, as well as The Chaos Walking Trilogy, to not only every YA fan out there, but to everyone who enjoys great books, filled with well-drawn character...

*wipes tears*I now have Hope.What a wonderful start to a series. Young Viola is traveling with her parents to settle a New World. Viola is not happy about her family being chosen to be the first on this world, but she is making do. I enjoyed how the story flipped back and forth to Viola's life before the voyage and her life on board the ship.I will definitely be looking at reading this series soon.

First Read: February 2017, Rating: 3 StarsSecond Read: November 2020, Rating: 3.5/5 StarsThis is a prequel short story to the Chaos Walking trilogy and can be found here.This is less of a prequel and more of a describing of events from an alternative character's viewpoint. Viola Eades is travelling with her family, via spaceship, to the new world they are hoping to inhabit. They have been chosen as the leading family to begin terraforming the new land in preparation for the rest of their communi...

“But in my chest, there was still fear, and I didn’t know which kind it was. Fear with hope, or fear without it.” In this story we are with Viola Eade.Viola, who according to the first book in the series, known as orphan girl because her parents died when the spaceship crashed. We never knew what happened, how, and when. We find out about it all in this story.During this short story, we jump between past and present. Patrick Ness, which is known as an amazing writer, teaches us a very smart less...

Sniff, sniff Patrick Ness just have a way to make me cry!This is the third story of him I've read and al three times I ended up in tears.

It was so nice to get a glimpse into Viola's life before she met Todd. I presumed she was a nice quiet girl before she met Todd but the short story showed me she was actually quite different. It was a great short story and the writing was brilliant (like it usually is). I would definitely recommend it.

I read the first book of the Chaos Walking series and too bad I did not like it. When I saw the free e-book in Barnes and Noble I did not hesitate to download it because I want to read it again, give it a chance it deserves. So far, I like how Viola Eade survive before their adventure begun. It was a great mystery in the beginning of the book and this answered everything I need to know about Viola.I did not like Will Todd and how he approach the whole journey, I don't know how he survive by hidi...

5 starsBoy, Patrick sure has me crying a lot!

This was nice enough, but it didn't really add much to the story for me. I liked the other two short stories a lot as it gave insight into either what happened afterwards, or building up character. But this is the Viola we already know. And unlike the others, it doesn't really have a lot of depth even in the limited way for something short. Even though it's so short I felt like it kind of got repetitive? And I didn't care as much as with the other two short stories because I knew everything that...