Monday, January 24, 2011
Gone and Hunger by Michael Grant
Gone and Hunger are the first two of Michal Grant's Gone series. I believe there are 4 in the series so far.
At the beginning of Gone everybody over 14 in the town and surrounding area of Perdido Beach disappears. There is a impenetrable dome around the area. Included in the dome are the town, a nuclear plant, and a boarding school. At first the children wait to be saved, then they work to pull themselves into a coherent group, then they start to look around, wonder, and plan. They must deal with the infants that have been left with them, the lack of communication, and the selfishness of humans. How can they work together to survive? Who can they look to for leadership?
Someone compared Gone to Lord of the Flies and there is that bullying personal darkness element but there are also aliens or alien or mutant powers in play. Yes, a fight of good versus evil but even more a personal inner struggle for integrity.
In Hunger, the children continue the struggle with the loss of food and electrical power. The non-talented fear and turn against the talented. The Darkness becomes more powerful and more is discovered about Petey's powers.
Worth reading as paperbacks but I'll not pay hardback prices to read more of the series.
At the beginning of Gone everybody over 14 in the town and surrounding area of Perdido Beach disappears. There is a impenetrable dome around the area. Included in the dome are the town, a nuclear plant, and a boarding school. At first the children wait to be saved, then they work to pull themselves into a coherent group, then they start to look around, wonder, and plan. They must deal with the infants that have been left with them, the lack of communication, and the selfishness of humans. How can they work together to survive? Who can they look to for leadership?
Someone compared Gone to Lord of the Flies and there is that bullying personal darkness element but there are also aliens or alien or mutant powers in play. Yes, a fight of good versus evil but even more a personal inner struggle for integrity.
In Hunger, the children continue the struggle with the loss of food and electrical power. The non-talented fear and turn against the talented. The Darkness becomes more powerful and more is discovered about Petey's powers.
Worth reading as paperbacks but I'll not pay hardback prices to read more of the series.
# posted by JJ @ 9:11 AM 
