Chaos Walking Series: The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, Monsters of Men

Patrick Ness's dystopian series Chaos Walking is great and original. I devoured them quickly, in large chunks. That being said, only a couple weeks after reading this series, I am already forgetting most of the details, including the protagonists' names. Toby and. . . completely forgot the girl's name. Upon checking, it's Todd and Viola. Oh right, I was annoyed by the single reference to Twelfth Night, but nothing after that.
The basic plot is fascinating. In The Knife of Never Letting Go, we're introduced to Todd, who is a couple months away from the birthday on which he becomes a man. He lives in a village on a distant planet the consists entirely of men. When settlers reached this planet, they were attacked by the alien inhabitants, who we defeat, but not before infecting the human with the Noise germ, which causes the thoughts of all men and animals to be audible, and killed all the women. When Todd is forced to flee his village and encounters a girl settler in the swamps, he discovers that the entire narrative of his life has been a lie.
In The Ask and the Answer, the story concerns how Todd and Viola, the girl settler, survive the burgeoning war between Todd home village and other villages, including plotting by the women healers and new discrimination against women. The series completes with Monsters from Men, in which the warring humans incite a new war with the indigenous Spackle. These two books have a shifting point-of-view between Todd, Viola, and even a Spackle, showing how the actions of beings are misinterpreted by others.
This series has many good qualities, the least of which is that Ness appears to have thought out all three books in advance, instead of tacking the last one and a half on to drag out the series (I can't yet speak for the free prequel, The New World). Unfortunately, the characters are completely forgettable, with little personality. In addition, the way they never learn from their mistakes annoyed me to know end. I totally recommend this series, but advise you not the expect your world to be changed.