A review by stjernesky
Gone by Michael Grant

3.0

I know some degree of suspension of disbelief is required when you're 20+ and read YA, I'm just... I can't get over that they're supposed to be 14 years old. Fourteen. Everything would make so much more sense if the author aged them up, idk, two years, or even three? Had everyone over the age of 18 disappear, instead of 15? That would have been in line with modern view of adulthood and whatnot. I hope there's an actual reason why he specifically chose that age, and that it'll be clear as the rest of the series goes. Other than that, I think the author makes it obvious that he always planned to write a series due to the way the ?villain? doesn't even appear until the end of the book, and there are so many unanswered questions. You may read that in a positive or a negative note, take that as you will, honestly. Right now, I'm kind of just continuing because I need to know how he manages to solve the problems within the plot. (The very obvious problems, such as lack of food etc.) There are still so many books left, and despite this one being almost six hundred pages, I feel like things went to a critical level on the pure dystopian side, while almost nothing happened with the overarching plot. We may not call it hate-reading... not yet, anyway.