GONE, HUNGER by Michael Grant

The GONE series by Michael Grant is a science fiction series that is impossible to put down. These are 400-500 almost 600 page books, so know that it’s going to be good. Since this series is 4 books and are long books I will break this series up into two blogs, so it won’t be so long for you to read it.

The first book in this series is GONE. The main character is Sam Temple, a 14 year old. You may be wondering why I told you Sam’s age. Well in this series age is almost as important as food and water. If you are confused I will explain what had happened in the small town of Perdido Beach.

Sam isn’t exactly a normal kid. He has an unbelievable power. He can have light come out of his hands, but that very light can melt and kill almost anything. This power can come in handy because everyone 15 and older disappeared. They were gone. No one knows what had happened; all that they know is that the oldest people are 14 year old kids and that a big dome is trapping them inside and trapping everyone else out. They all turn to school bus Sam (a name that he had gotten when a bus driver had a heart attack and he a first grader was the one who pulled the bus over) for help. Little does everyone know Sam isn’t the one with the most power in the FAYZ (Fallout Alley Youth Zone), but rather an autistic little kid named Pete (Little Pete). Little Pete is Astrid’s (Sam’s crush/girlfriend) younger brother. Since Pete is autistic he doesn’t actually know what is going on, or that he created the FAYZ, with the help of what people call the Darkness. Only two people know about Pete’s powers; those two people are Astrid (of course) and surprisingly Sam. The Coates Academy has actually taken over Perdido Beach, with Sam’s twin brother (Caine, who has the power to move things with his mind) in charge. Caine is not the best person for the job, because he wants to be treated like a king. Will he get full control over Perdido Beach, or will the kids with developing powers like Sam and Caine be able to over throw him?

The second book in this series is Hunger. In this book everyone is starving, especially the darkness. T he darkness hungers for something totally different then what everybody else considers food. The darkness hungers for what runs the light and electricity in Perdido Beach. The darkness hungers for uranium. That’s right I said uranium the radioactive kind of stuff. While the food dwindles down in town and at Coates, the wars still wage. Now that Perdido Beach kicked Caine out of power and sent him back to Coates a war has begun between the two places. Now that if you don’t have a power you might just die, or the other way around. With the Human Crew (HC) out in the streets of Perdido Beach anything could happen. As I already said everyone in Perdido Beach is hungry, hungry doesn’t even describe what the kids in the FAYZ are feeling. The word ravenous describes what the kids are feeling now. For food Caine decides to take over the Power Plant the runs Perdido Beach’s power in exchange for food. Only the food isn’t for him it is for the darkness. Besides Sam and Caine another important character is Lana, otherwise known as the Healer. Lana has met the Darkness. Lana is what the Darkness wants to make it human. Lana always has the Darkness in her mind, and is always hearing the words that it had spoken to her. Well in this book Lana makes her mind up that she will kill the Darkness. Lana believes that she will try to blow it up and almost succeeds in doing so, but she got so close to doing so… then the Darkness had pulled her into the cave. Then it possesses her and she has no control over her body or actions. What will she do like this?

In my next blog I will tell you about the third and fourth books in the GONE series.