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Monster
by Michael Grant
One of my reading highlights this year has been returning to the world created by Michael Grant in the Gone series: what was known as the FAYZ. Monster takes up the story a few years down the line, when the FAYZ is gone but the memories of the events that took place within it still linger. (For those new to the books, you don't have to have read the others, Monster can be read as a self-contained story. The FAYZ was the name for an area of Perdido Beach that became enclosed within a dome, where everyone over the age of 15 was ejected, and many of those who remained gained special powers.)
Some of the characters from the original books make a reappearance in Monster, as well as some completely new. When meteorites start to land on Earth, they contain a virus that when ingested by humans gives them strange powers - unleashing a battle between good and evil...
I absolutely raced through this book, I was sucked in early on and only came up for air and food once or twice until I'd finished. I think I topped the bath water up three times at the end as I wasn't getting out until I'd finished!
Full of action, adventure and with a strong sense of the moral dilemmas that humans face this is a great read.
Some of the characters from the original books make a reappearance in Monster, as well as some completely new. When meteorites start to land on Earth, they contain a virus that when ingested by humans gives them strange powers - unleashing a battle between good and evil...
I absolutely raced through this book, I was sucked in early on and only came up for air and food once or twice until I'd finished. I think I topped the bath water up three times at the end as I wasn't getting out until I'd finished!
Full of action, adventure and with a strong sense of the moral dilemmas that humans face this is a great read.