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magras's review
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
4.5
shelbyfayy's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
helenloraine's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
5.0
sqiddo13's review
adventurous
dark
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
singh_reads_kanwar2's review against another edition
3.0
Gone: In the blink of an eye, everyone of the elder above 15 years disappears. Gone. Except for the young. There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened. 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. Some powers are also developing for good such as healers and protectors and teleporters
It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up and the control over resources will decide who will rule the nation. Townies against rich kids who consider them fortunate are now equal and they have learn to adapt or perish in chaos. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: on your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else behind the FAYZ walls.
Hunter:
It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ. Three months since all the adults disappeared.
Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers. There is wedge between people with super power, and normal kids and the are up against each other only healer is allowed to roam in both areas.
Tension rises and chaos is descending upon the town. It's the normal kids against the mutants. Each kid is out for himself, and even the good ones turn murderous.
Brianna and Lana as examples of strong females. However, in the heat of battle when Brianna is required to be strong, she instead decides to run away and cook herself a pigeon. By Sam, Caine and Duck (the male characters who come swooping in to rescue her), in fact. Also, most of the battle stuff is done man-to-man. Usually featuring Sam, Caine, Drake, Edilio, Orc and Jack; the girls tend to hide behind the rubble or are used to threaten their boyfriends.
But a larger problem looms. The Darkness, a sinister creature that has lived buried deep in the hills, begins calling to some of the teens in the FAYZ. Calling to them, guiding them, manipulating them. The Darkness has awakened. And it is hungry.
Lies:
This is the 3rd installment of the gone series. After adults got disappeared and there is food shortage is coming ahead of them with limited resources, the life is going to be difficult in coming days.
The writing was very good, as usual, but personally I would have loved a bit less POV's in the series. Especially since every book has few new characters that weren't there in the previous books. In Lies, we're introduced to five new characters who live on one of the islands trapped in the FAYZ. I liked reading about them, but I was just a tiny bit annoyed because there were another five characters we need to remember in the upcoming books.
Of course, there are also still the original characters; Sam, Astrid, Little Pete, Quinn, Caine, Diana, etc. And I liked reading about them. They all have issues, like the fights Sam and Astrid have, the fact that Caine and Diana and the other Coates kids are nearly starving to death; and I liked them for that. They have there imperfections, Astrid wasn't the perfect 'genius' that she was supposed to be, Sam wasn't the perfect hero that everyone thought he was, but that didn't matter. I liked them with there flaws.
Lies is also the first book in the series, where we hear about people on the outside of the FAYZ, which build a kind of hope we'll be hearing more from them, but for some reason I think that's not going to happen, anytime sooner. Until Pete howling happened
I was also very annoyed by the Human Crew in this book, which shows us how horrible humans can be during a situation like this, and I think Grant did a VERY good job at it with the Human Crew. Every time I read about them wanting to kill the 'freaks' I cringed and wanted Zil to be punished.
Plaque:
We are in the 4th book and now things are getting dark and complex, characters are increasing with every book.
They're gory, complex, fast-paced and boast a cast of diverse and interesting characters. It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. But enemies in the FAYZ don't just fade away, and in the quiet, deadly things are stirring, mutating, and finding their way free. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach. I like that it's not cliche author is being more realistic, I liked that author show realism through betrayal in friendships when times got tough and not everyone is a hero. Some people are just scared, some people are arrogant, some people are good leaders and bad leaders and cruel leaders.
But , biggest danger looming upon them is a highly contagious, fatal illness spreads at an alarming rate. Sinister, predatory insects terrorize Perdido Beach. Few characters are killed because of there attack and illness they spread to the children and important character Hunter is killed. Sam, Astrid, Diana, and Caine are plagued by a growing doubt that they'll escape - or even survive - life in the FAYZ.The characters don't let down the plot and the events of the story at all which I love as the plot doesn't fall flat at all.
Fear: This series is going towards mystery thriller as the children mysteriously cut-off and domed part of San Francisco known as the FAYZ, after surviving all the adults being Gone, countering the Hunger wit minimal resources, a cacophony of Lies to safeguard interest of there own and community so that things don't turn into chaos, and then an actual Plague, that can wipe out the FAYZ community if they conquered them, the original Perdido Beach community has finally splintered! One has gone AWOL, one rules his own kingdom, one wants to be a FAYZ millionaire, and there's the first FAYZ baby on the way. Meanwhile our main hero is bored with the good life on the freshwater lake, but not for long, as tendrils of darkness start appearing on the barrier - they gets a bit worried, because other than fear itself, the only thing they truly fears, is the dark!
This is the new age of young adult long-form story telling, a huge diverse, enigmatic and fully released cast of kids with hardly a trope in sight. The queen, is the 13 year old pig-tailed red-headed girl Breanna, 'The Breeze', what a great character. Even the ' villians ' are thoroughly multi-dimensional. As ever the most important point about this series, is that Michael Grant never lets readers, or the cast themselves ever forget that they are children; oh, and he should give lessons on how to build climatic ending.
Light:
The story is about a town in California where suddenly, in the space of a millisecond, everybody over the age of 15 disappears. Imagine,No doctors or police or parents. The remaining children must try to get by the best they can but, in a world without adults, bullies are free to reign. Rules can no longer be enforced. There is no way to call for help and no one to hear you anyway. This series takes an excellent look at power, the abuse of it and the dark side of human nature, how quick we are to be outraged at the behaviour of others and doesn't understand the circumstances and problem they are in and they don't understand how to handle the situation because there is no guiding force to help us settle. Above all, some of the kids find themselves inexplicably developing powers. Mutant powers.
I liked how Author looks into the background of each character and shows you why he or she could behave in a certain way and how their experience is unique because of who they are. For a series that has such a huge cast of characters, they are incredibly different, well-developed and memorable. The series although have weak female counterparts but they keep male character in control . I liked the way relationships are explored and excellent safe sex campaign for young readers.
Author maintained that perfect balance between religion and scepticism. Certain characters move through cycles of questioning, doubt and disbelief, few discovered a new meaning in religion, turning their backs on the belief they'd always put above all else. At one point a child was about to claim himself Jesus when author cut short the character
It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up and the control over resources will decide who will rule the nation. Townies against rich kids who consider them fortunate are now equal and they have learn to adapt or perish in chaos. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: on your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else behind the FAYZ walls.
Hunter:
It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ. Three months since all the adults disappeared.
Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers. There is wedge between people with super power, and normal kids and the are up against each other only healer is allowed to roam in both areas.
Tension rises and chaos is descending upon the town. It's the normal kids against the mutants. Each kid is out for himself, and even the good ones turn murderous.
Brianna and Lana as examples of strong females. However, in the heat of battle when Brianna is required to be strong, she instead decides to run away and cook herself a pigeon. By Sam, Caine and Duck (the male characters who come swooping in to rescue her), in fact. Also, most of the battle stuff is done man-to-man. Usually featuring Sam, Caine, Drake, Edilio, Orc and Jack; the girls tend to hide behind the rubble or are used to threaten their boyfriends.
But a larger problem looms. The Darkness, a sinister creature that has lived buried deep in the hills, begins calling to some of the teens in the FAYZ. Calling to them, guiding them, manipulating them. The Darkness has awakened. And it is hungry.
Lies:
This is the 3rd installment of the gone series. After adults got disappeared and there is food shortage is coming ahead of them with limited resources, the life is going to be difficult in coming days.
The writing was very good, as usual, but personally I would have loved a bit less POV's in the series. Especially since every book has few new characters that weren't there in the previous books. In Lies, we're introduced to five new characters who live on one of the islands trapped in the FAYZ. I liked reading about them, but I was just a tiny bit annoyed because there were another five characters we need to remember in the upcoming books.
Of course, there are also still the original characters; Sam, Astrid, Little Pete, Quinn, Caine, Diana, etc. And I liked reading about them. They all have issues, like the fights Sam and Astrid have, the fact that Caine and Diana and the other Coates kids are nearly starving to death; and I liked them for that. They have there imperfections, Astrid wasn't the perfect 'genius' that she was supposed to be, Sam wasn't the perfect hero that everyone thought he was, but that didn't matter. I liked them with there flaws.
Lies is also the first book in the series, where we hear about people on the outside of the FAYZ, which build a kind of hope we'll be hearing more from them, but for some reason I think that's not going to happen, anytime sooner. Until Pete howling happened
I was also very annoyed by the Human Crew in this book, which shows us how horrible humans can be during a situation like this, and I think Grant did a VERY good job at it with the Human Crew. Every time I read about them wanting to kill the 'freaks' I cringed and wanted Zil to be punished.
Plaque:
We are in the 4th book and now things are getting dark and complex, characters are increasing with every book.
They're gory, complex, fast-paced and boast a cast of diverse and interesting characters. It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. But enemies in the FAYZ don't just fade away, and in the quiet, deadly things are stirring, mutating, and finding their way free. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach. I like that it's not cliche author is being more realistic, I liked that author show realism through betrayal in friendships when times got tough and not everyone is a hero. Some people are just scared, some people are arrogant, some people are good leaders and bad leaders and cruel leaders.
But , biggest danger looming upon them is a highly contagious, fatal illness spreads at an alarming rate. Sinister, predatory insects terrorize Perdido Beach. Few characters are killed because of there attack and illness they spread to the children and important character Hunter is killed. Sam, Astrid, Diana, and Caine are plagued by a growing doubt that they'll escape - or even survive - life in the FAYZ.The characters don't let down the plot and the events of the story at all which I love as the plot doesn't fall flat at all.
Fear: This series is going towards mystery thriller as the children mysteriously cut-off and domed part of San Francisco known as the FAYZ, after surviving all the adults being Gone, countering the Hunger wit minimal resources, a cacophony of Lies to safeguard interest of there own and community so that things don't turn into chaos, and then an actual Plague, that can wipe out the FAYZ community if they conquered them, the original Perdido Beach community has finally splintered! One has gone AWOL, one rules his own kingdom, one wants to be a FAYZ millionaire, and there's the first FAYZ baby on the way. Meanwhile our main hero is bored with the good life on the freshwater lake, but not for long, as tendrils of darkness start appearing on the barrier - they gets a bit worried, because other than fear itself, the only thing they truly fears, is the dark!
This is the new age of young adult long-form story telling, a huge diverse, enigmatic and fully released cast of kids with hardly a trope in sight. The queen, is the 13 year old pig-tailed red-headed girl Breanna, 'The Breeze', what a great character. Even the ' villians ' are thoroughly multi-dimensional. As ever the most important point about this series, is that Michael Grant never lets readers, or the cast themselves ever forget that they are children; oh, and he should give lessons on how to build climatic ending.
Light:
The story is about a town in California where suddenly, in the space of a millisecond, everybody over the age of 15 disappears. Imagine,No doctors or police or parents. The remaining children must try to get by the best they can but, in a world without adults, bullies are free to reign. Rules can no longer be enforced. There is no way to call for help and no one to hear you anyway. This series takes an excellent look at power, the abuse of it and the dark side of human nature, how quick we are to be outraged at the behaviour of others and doesn't understand the circumstances and problem they are in and they don't understand how to handle the situation because there is no guiding force to help us settle. Above all, some of the kids find themselves inexplicably developing powers. Mutant powers.
I liked how Author looks into the background of each character and shows you why he or she could behave in a certain way and how their experience is unique because of who they are. For a series that has such a huge cast of characters, they are incredibly different, well-developed and memorable. The series although have weak female counterparts but they keep male character in control . I liked the way relationships are explored and excellent safe sex campaign for young readers.
Author maintained that perfect balance between religion and scepticism. Certain characters move through cycles of questioning, doubt and disbelief, few discovered a new meaning in religion, turning their backs on the belief they'd always put above all else. At one point a child was about to claim himself Jesus when author cut short the character
akicrp's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
applejack265's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
ddownes98's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0