Hunger: A Gone Novel Author: Michael Grant | Language: English | ISBN:
B002AP9G8K | Format: PDF
Hunger: A Gone Novel Description
It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ.
Three months since all the adults disappeared.
Gone.
Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers.
Tension rises and chaos is descending upon the town. It's the normal kids against the mutants. Each kid is out for himself, and even the good ones turn murderous.
But a larger problem looms. The Darkness, a sinister creature that has lived buried deep in the hills, begins calling to some of the teens in the FAYZ. Calling to them, guiding them, manipulating them.
The Darkness has awakened. And it is hungry.
- File Size: 687 KB
- Print Length: 608 pages
- Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books; 1 edition (May 26, 2009)
- Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- ASIN: B002AP9G8K
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Not Enabled
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In a blink of an eye all the adults and the youths over 15 vanished from the tiny Californian town of Perdido Beach, leaving behind a desolate post-apocalyptic setting rife with very strange mutations... and stranded children forced to fend for themselves and cope with terrifying challenges. And that is Gone, recapped.
SPOILERS from now on, scattered pretty much all over the place, like landmines.
As HUNGER opens, three months have elapsed since the monumental Thanksgiving showdown with the sinister Coates Academy. But, for the 332 kids of Perdido Beach, things have only gotten worse. In the struggle for day-to-day survival, starvation is tapping on the door. Perdido Beach's inexperienced (and teenaged) administrative heads are at wit's end, and the stress is even getting to School Bus Sam, the town's looked upon hero and savior. It's not only that the children now lack the motivation to work, but potential foods waiting to be harvested, like the horrifying cabbage field, turn out to be very capable of biting back. Then there are these: Wolves who speak. Bats who swim. Worms with teeth and territorial aspirations. Freaky mutations abound.
After months of silence, there's a stirring in the Coates Academy. Caine, the Academy's power-bent telekinetic leader (and Sam's fraternal twin brother), has finally recovered enough to begin scheming again. But Caine's dreams are now haunted by the gaiaphage, that dark presence lurking in the mine shaft. Equally alarming, something new and scary is up with Little Pete, Astrid's severely autistic 5-year-old brother.
*This review may contain spoilers for Gone—book one in this series!*
Hunger picks up about three months after the events of Gone. The kids of Perdido Beach haven't had trouble from the Coates kids, but that doesn't mean life is grand, because bigger problems are beginning to develop. Problem number one is food. There isn't enough left for them to survive on. Sam attempts to put together a group to harvest crops that are lying untouched, ready to eat - but unfortunately, only a handful of people want to help. After one hurdle is passed, yet another arises. Mutated worms dubbed “zekes” have infested the crop fields and make it next to impossible to pick any of the food without deadly consequences. All roads now point to starvation, and hope is dwindling fast.
Meanwhile, at Coates, Caine is hatching a plan; a plan to get back at Sam and his crew. Not only that, but Caine has been overtaken by mind-control and thoughts directly from the Darkness; the Gaiaphage. It's hungry, and if it get's what it needs, things will go from bad to worse. Caine is slowly losing his sanity...
“‘I'm the brains!’ Caine shrieked. ‘I'm the brains! I'm the brains and the power, the true power, the four bar, the one. I am the one. Me! Why do you think the Darkness kept me for three days? Why do you think... Why do you think it's still in my... in my...’
There was an abrupt change in Caine's voice. For a second it was as if he was sobbing, not raging.”
... and the only remedy is to give the Gaiaphage what it wants.
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When it comes to reviewing a book like this one, I am always at a loss. I have so much to say, yet I never know where to begin. There's too much in my brain. I sat on this review for over a month, and I am still lost.
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