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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved the Gone-series (even though, it's been years since I've read them)
unfortunately I couldn't connect with this sequel at all
unfortunately I couldn't connect with this sequel at all
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
That ending! I was absolutely not expecting this book to end as it did. I'm not sure how I feel about books that have an open ending. I think sometimes it can really work, but sometimes I just really want to know what happens. I still haven't decided which of these categories this book fits into.
adventurous
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
“We are the heroes of our own stories.”
Hero is the third and final book in the Monster trilogy by Michael Grant — a sequel series to GONE, his modern-day Lord of the Flies. GONE was a series I devoured when I was fifteen, and this book finally concluded one of the long-running open thread of Drake. Drake, or Whip-Hand, is still to this day the most terrifying fictional character I have ever come across. His defeat was ambiguous at the end of GONE, but here it is definite and brilliant.
Hero brings back some of my beloved characters from the original series and throws them into a new, chaotic and twisted superhero universe. It’s gory, it’s weird, and it’s impossible to put down.
Michael Grant remains one of my all time favourite authors, but he also remains one of the my least favourite series-enders. The way this books ends is a cruel cliffhanger that will never be resolved. It lets the audience decide to end the story the way they feel it should end. The message of the series is of making your own choices — to be a monster, a hero, or a villain, and so this end is fitting… but painful!
For the most part this played out like the previous two books of this sequel trilogy. A big bad guy with a deadly power starts causing issues and the super squad that formed in the previous books try to stop him. Being the final book, however, there were some loose ends to tie up, some from this trilogy and some from the original series. Unfortunately, the loose ends felt very lazily concluded - a couple were satisfying because of who was involved but there were big build ups which just petered out. The ending was just hopelessly awful and potentially has ruined the entire series for me. It could be saved with a subsequent book, but as it stands, the Gone series is much better without this sequel trilogy which adds nothing to the franchise and has the worst ending twist.
I was a little disappointed by the ending, but Grant stuck to what he does best. He portrays trauma unlike anyone else, it’s something everyone can understand and yet know they aren’t immune to it.
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated