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A review by hazelstaybookish
Gone by Michael Grant
4.0
What do you do when no one's there to look after you? To feed, guide, and protect you? What do you do when your teachers, your parents and all adults fifteen and above are simply gone?
No one knows. Not Astrid the Genius or Schoolbus Sam. In Michael Grant's dystopian sci-fi, Gone, the young kids, all those who stayed behind, are thrown off by this dilemma. Who won't freak out when you are left alone to fend for yourself with a bunch of kids who are as clueless as you are? Oh and yes, don't forget the strange powers the characters have and the mutating animals. FAYZ (Fall Out Youth Alley Zone, as the characters named it) is in a state of chaos.
I am not a huge sci-fi fan but Gone had exceeded my expectations. Honestly, at first, the book seemed very tiring to read and I had to pause for a while. There was so much action that even I was getting exhausted. BUT. Yes, there's a big but right there. The action of course is what made the book so interesting. The drama and everything that's happening is so overwhelming and it's crazy- in a good way.
The characters, Sam, Astrid, Quinn, Edilio, Lana, Albert, Little Pete, Caine, Diana, Drake, Jack, Orc, Mary, Dahra, Brianna and so on, were just as crazy. Okay, some of them were literally crazy, like Drake, who is just such an abominable psychopath. What I meant was that the number of characters (I haven't even named them all in that case) was generally astonishing. I just love that Michael Grant was able to make us understand each one of them. Getting to view the situation in so many perspectives was a nice change.
Another refreshing thing about this book was that it did not focus so much on romance. Grab a YA book and I assure you that there would definitely be romance there. Yes, some of the characters here develop relationships but this was not the focal point of the story. There is so little romance that it made me appreciate even the little things.
In my opinion, the book was awesome. I loved the story, the characters, and the action. It was a roller coaster ride with so many ups and downs. I really don't know what's going to happen with the next books but I daresay they would probably be as thrilling as Gone.
No one knows. Not Astrid the Genius or Schoolbus Sam. In Michael Grant's dystopian sci-fi, Gone, the young kids, all those who stayed behind, are thrown off by this dilemma. Who won't freak out when you are left alone to fend for yourself with a bunch of kids who are as clueless as you are? Oh and yes, don't forget the strange powers the characters have and the mutating animals. FAYZ (Fall Out Youth Alley Zone, as the characters named it) is in a state of chaos.
I am not a huge sci-fi fan but Gone had exceeded my expectations. Honestly, at first, the book seemed very tiring to read and I had to pause for a while. There was so much action that even I was getting exhausted. BUT. Yes, there's a big but right there. The action of course is what made the book so interesting. The drama and everything that's happening is so overwhelming and it's crazy- in a good way.
The characters, Sam, Astrid, Quinn, Edilio, Lana, Albert, Little Pete, Caine, Diana, Drake, Jack, Orc, Mary, Dahra, Brianna and so on, were just as crazy. Okay, some of them were literally crazy, like Drake, who is just such an abominable psychopath. What I meant was that the number of characters (I haven't even named them all in that case) was generally astonishing. I just love that Michael Grant was able to make us understand each one of them. Getting to view the situation in so many perspectives was a nice change.
Another refreshing thing about this book was that it did not focus so much on romance. Grab a YA book and I assure you that there would definitely be romance there. Yes, some of the characters here develop relationships but this was not the focal point of the story. There is so little romance that it made me appreciate even the little things.
In my opinion, the book was awesome. I loved the story, the characters, and the action. It was a roller coaster ride with so many ups and downs. I really don't know what's going to happen with the next books but I daresay they would probably be as thrilling as Gone.