A review by saidtheraina
Plague by Michael Grant

4.0

This series is SO FREAKING GOOD.

It keeps getting darker and darker, to where in this one there's concurrent plotlines about

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coughing out your lungs and bus-sized bugs that plant their eggs inside humans and then eat their way out

. Gross. Made me make faces and noises of ewwness. And things just keep getting more desperate. Still unsure who the girl on the back cover is, though. Thinking

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the Breeze

at this point. I appreciate how the books honestly bring spirituality into it, in a way that would have to come in for such desparate times. But don't worry, it doesn't get dogmatic at all. Solid, awesome. I'm bummed that I have to wait another year for the next one.