Author: Micheal Grant
Release Date: 2008
4 Stars...liked it would recommend 

In the blink of an eye.  Everyone disappears.  Gone.  Everyone except for the young.  Teens.  Middle Schoolers.  Toddlers.  But not a single adult.  No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents.  Gone, too, are the phones, internet, and the television.  There is no way to get help. 

Hunger threatens.  Bullies rule.  A sinister creature lurks.  Animals are mutating.  And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents -  unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers - that grow stronger by the day.

Its a terrifying new world.  Sides are being chosen and war is imminent.  

The first in a breathtaking saga about teens battling each other and their darkest selves, Gone is a page turning thriller that will make you look at the world in a whole new way. 


I really wasn't even planning on reading this book.  The only reason I picked it up was because Barnes and Nobles had a section that said if you liked Hunger Games, you would like this....well I LOVE the Hunger Games, and it was also recommended by Stephen King.  So I am thinking, slam dunk right?  Well I did like it.  I liked the fact that I had no idea where the plot was going or what was going to happen exactly.  I liked the page turning drama and action.  I even shamefully liked the dark grotesque parts.  The one thing that kept coming to mind was that it was a cross between Heroes, and Lord of the Flies.  The scary part is that this could be the way kids would act if all adults were removed.

The things that I did not like, for one I there was no character development.  The main character Sam is supposed to be the shy hero, except I didn't really buy it.  I did like the character of Lana, her healing powers throw her into predicaments she is uncomfortable with and she triumphs over them.  She also has a Lab for a dog that she saves, and I am kind of partial to labs.  I also did not care for the talking coyotes, and this thing in the darkness, kinda cheesy to me.  

I would like to mention that in conjunction with reading this book, I was reading The Passage by Justin Cronin.  I think I need to read something a little lighter and not about the end of the world next!  With all said and done, I am rating it a 4 because I did enjoy the fact that it sucked me in and kept me entertained.  I am currently reading the next book, Hunger now.       

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