Scott's Take: Chosen Ones: A Novel by Veronica Roth

 
What Do you do after you fulfilled a prophecy and save the world? Chosen Ones: A Novel by Veronica Roth is a book about such a situation. Five ordinary teenagers teamed up to defeat the Dark One who was destroying the world using magic. Ten years later they are all dealing with their lives post being the chosen ones and saving the world.

 

What does one do after saving the world and fulfilling the purpose of their whole lives prior to defeating the villain? How does one rejoin society after becoming one of the world’s most celebrated heroes? What do you do when you where trained for war, but there is no war left to fight? How do you go on?

 

The main character is Sloan who is struggling with PTSD and life in general. She and the other four are attending a reunion celebration that is honoring their work and the fall of the dark one. After the ceremonies and celebration, one of the other four is found dead. Things soon become very complicated with lots of twists and turns.

 

Interconnected between chapters are documents that flesh out the backstory of various characters and events. The book is full of action, magic, humor, and fully realized characters. The story is really different than most fantasy books. The plot is about dissecting various types chosen ones (the heroes fated to save the world in a prophecy) and their various flaws.

 

I highly enjoyed this book, but there are various things that might cause people issues such as the fact one character is dealing with PTSD, another is dealing with drug addiction, suicide as well as the ideas of loss and grief are discussed and more. The read is very adult in nature and should not be read by kids.

 

Chosen Ones: A Novel by Veronica Roth is a very complicated book and is not easily summarized while avoiding spoilers. It is also the first book in a new series. The next book in the series is currently untitled and the release date has yet to be determined.

 

   

Chosen Ones: A Novel

Veronica Roth

https://veronicarothbooks.com/

A John Joseph Adams Book (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

http://www.johnjosephadams.com/projects/chosen-ones/

2020

ISBN# 978-0-358-16408-1

Hardback (also available in audio, eBook, and paperback formats)

432 Pages

 

 

My reading copy came from the Mountain Creek Branch of the Dallas Public Library System.

 

Scott A. Tipple ©2020