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Hero
by Michael Grant
“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!