Hunger (Gone)

In this sequel to Gone the food has run out and the normal teens are growing resentful of the teens who have powers. Sam is feeling the strain of being in charge and Caine, under the influence of the thing in the mine shaft, takes over the nuclear power plant. This book is just as thrilling as Gone

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but somewhat gorier.

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Things aren’t getting any easier in the FAYZ (Fall-out Alley Youth Zone) since the big Thanksgiving Battle against Caine and the other Coates Academy kids. In fact, everything seems to be going from bad to worse. Sam, the appointed leader of Perdido Beach, is feeling the pressure of all the day

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to day decisions. The biggest problem that everyone is facing is starvation. With the fear and confusion that followed the disappearance of everyone 15 and over, the kids that were left did what they wanted - including eating what they wanted. Nothing was done to preserve food for the future, so meats and vegetables went bad, leaving food in short supply. The kids in Perdido Beach and Coates Academy are left eating what canned food is left. One day it might be asparagus for breakfast, wax beans for lunch, and hot dog relish for dinner. No one is in good spirits and when Caine recovers from his encounter with The Darkness and makes another move for power, things only get worse.Sam is suffering from all the stress, Little Pete’s powers are getting scarier every day, some of the kids that haven’t developed powers are beginning to start trouble, and important people are switching sides. Danger is at its all time high. Death seems imminent. Michael Grant has produced a very satisfying sequel. The tension and excitement in the story is palpable. Character development continues to be a strong point. The new characters that are introduced add to the plot, but our favorites from GONE continue to play a large role in the story. HUNGER is the second book in a six-part series. Michael Grant is currently working on the third which will be titled LIES. HUNGER will be released June 2009, but be sure to read GONE first, you’ll need the backstory to really appreciate the sequel.

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The kids of the FAZE are back and things are getting desperate. Food is in short supply, and there is growing hostility between the mutant and the normals. Sam is overwhelmed with acting as a parent and leader for all the kids while the world seems to be falling apart around him. There are lots of

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subplots and storylines. The book is a page turner, full of action, oddness, and excitement with a lot of evil bubbling just beneath the surface.

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Picks up 3 months after Gone. Food is running out in the FAYZ, and Sam's leadership abilities are tested as kids grow more restless and defiant. Meanwhile, Caine, who's been in a feverish dream for 3 months, recovers and begins to plot against Sam again, following the instructions of the Darkness,

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a monster that's invaded his mind. Normal kids plot against mutants as Sam tries to restore some order and destroy the Darkness that's taken over many of them.

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The Gone series is the type of series that has you marking down your calendars waiting for the next installment. Both Hunger, and its prequel, Gone were gripping and fantastic. Hunger, while darker than its prequel, really dove into deeper topics. The cast of the series is diverse in its variety,

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and you are free to pick your favorites. The dialogue, while nothing fantastic, is realistic and easy. Same as the writing. Yes, the writing has some grammatical mistakes and is far from lyrical, but it serves its purpose. Great book that I recommend to all.

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This book was pretty good. It had much more action than the first one, and a lot of almost deaths, which were kind of weird. Also, secrets are revealed and betrayals are made. The whole switching back and forth between characters get annoying sometimes. I want to be reading about one thing, but

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Micheal Grant decides that I need to be reading another thing. Also I don't see how the whole freaks versus normals thing works with the story. Maybe it's to give the whole book more colours. I don't know. But it was a good book, and it was totally worth reading!

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For those who felt let down at the end of Gone, wishing it wouldn't end, you'll be happy to know that Hunger does not disappoint. The story flows nicely from the first book, without a lot of time wasted with recaps and the evil characters are developed more. The ending leaves us waiting for a 3rd

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book but you will get some answers and will become closer to the characters. This book is more disturbing than the first, so be careful how young your reader is. Some young adult books like this are really for older teens, not middle schoolers or those prone to anxiety or nightmares.

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A fascinating continuation to the series. I think I liked book #1 a tiny bit better, because in this one I could so clearly see the mistakes Sam was making, and just wanted to yell at him for it. I like that he's not perfect though - it makes him less Gary Stu'ish.

The language is somewhat juvenile

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at times, but it works with the style of the book and helps set the atmosphere. That doesn't mean it isn't well-written though. I found it very engaging and even sinister in places. I also like reading an author who understands how to write a series - round off the small individual plot lines in each book, but let the larger plot unfold through the series. It makes me actually not mind not knowing how many books are in the series.

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This is one of those books that has been sitting on my bookshelf for a ridiculously long time. I knew that I'd enjoy it, but I also knew it might take a while to read it, and it was too fat to be a "car" book, so I kept putting off reading it. Then, I saw that book three was in the stores, so I

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decided I better not wait any longer, and I'm glad I didn't cause it was a fast, very enjoyable read. I think I even liked it better than Gone.
The food has run out, the kids are not following Sam's orders as easily as they did before, and the normal teens are growing quite resentful of the teens who have power. The kids under the rule of Caine and Drake have a plan to take control of the town from Sam, and Sam has no idea that it's going to happen until it is too late. Meanwhile, the Darkness, the creature living deep in the mine in the hills has started invading the minds of some of the teens, and exerting its power on them.
Chapter one starts off with a scene that will grab you, shock you, and scare you silly. I'd hate to have a summer job picking vegetables after reading that!
Lots of action, lots of violence and lots of suspense. Boys would LOVE this. The mutant powers made me think a little of the residents at the X-Men school.

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This book is the second in the Gone series. This is a six-book series; so think about this carefully before you start reading the first in the series. Because you can't stop. Or at least I can't!

Granted, it's been a while since I read the first book. I was honestly emotionally and mentally scarred

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a little by the first one. I'll recap quickly for anyone who needs it. In the first book, all adults over the age of 15 disappear. Instantly. Gone. The children who are left quickly fall apart into a chaotic mess. Within a matter of days, two leaders emerge. Brothers. One is good. His name is Sam. The other is evil. His name is Caine.

Hunger picks up right where Gone left off. There are no resolutions between good and evil, though "good" won round one. Hunger is the story of round two. And it's a doozy.

This second novel is aptly titled because most of the children are starving to death. There are serious food shortages and food is strictly rationed. Also, more and more kids are finding that they have special abilities (dream reading, flight, super-human strength, etc). This is probably caused by the nuclear power plant in town. Which is still running, still providing power to the kids of the FAYZ.

To add to the drama, because Michael Grant is some sort of evil sadist, there is an evil demon-like voice invading the minds of some of the kids. It's telling them to feed him. It's calling them to serve. For evil purposes. It's name is Gaiaphage.

This is book, like the first in the series, is a wild ride. There are no stops, no getting off. It's tension and drama and chaos and stress. And I'm loving it. I need to read book three (of six!), but I need to take a deep breath first. It's like I've just left a live-action soap opera where people are killed right in front of me. And those people are kids. And they're vicious. It's disturbing and awesome all at the same time.

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Hunger is WAY darker than the first book in the series, Gone. The kids in the FAYZ are truly struggling to survive, what with looming starvation, mutant deadly animals, groups fighting each other ("Freaks" vs. "Normals"), and The Darkness. I would have recommended Gone to kids as young as 13-14,

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but I don't know about this one. Perhaps Grant is aiming, like Rowling did, to write the books for a growing audience, getting darker and more intense as the series goes on. It was still really good, though. My fiance and I are both eagerly awaiting the next installment in the series.

Upon re-read June 2010
Yup, still feel the same about it. I'm so happy this series is standing up to being read more than once!

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The kids of the FAYZ are now getting very hungry, they are starving. All the nutritious food has run out. The two sides are still warring, and now it seems the power plant is the next thing under threat from Caine and his dangerous sidekicks.

As the stress of living without adults increases so does

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the ‘powers’ of more and more children. These abilities are now causing a division Sam’s part of FAYZ and the kids are taking sides, with disastrous results.

This 2nd in the series book was just as thrilling, exciting and fast-paced as the first.
I did find that the gruesome content may not be suitable for readers of the first book.
But I can wait to get my hands Lies (book 3).

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This book is about Sam ( main character) and the dome that has covered the town of Period Beach CA. when the parents POOFED (that is what they called it) most of the kids ate, in the last book, and because of that they are running out of food. Sam had found some food, but ran in to a problem.

Hunger is the sequel to the book Gone. In Hunger, the kids in Perdido Beach and Coates Academy are starving. More kids are developing powers that unfortunately can kill people. So now, the kids at Perdido Beach have divided themselves into freaks and normals. But what the normals don't know is that

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they are all facing the same monster. A creature some call Darkness. In the end, some kids die and some are seriously hurt, but they have succesfully defeated Darkness.
I really liked this book. I love the way it is written. At some parts, I feel as though my heart stops because something major just happened. I didn't like the ending so much, I thought the book ended a little bit too early. But I wish that all books could be written like this one.

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Hunger was a terrific second addition to the Gone series. It had all of the same elements, issues and terror of the first book, only intensified to put Hunger in it’s own category of horror.

Despite how eerily paranormal this series could be considered, Grant does a great job of depicting how real

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kids would act if it were a real situation. In the end, I think that’s what it makes it so creepy. In Hunger, the issue of the diminishing lack of food is brought to surface; causing even more chaos and riot among the surviving children. At times, their anarchy was even more scary to read about than the newly discovered but equally terrifying mutated creatures that are in this one.

It got to be a bit confusing with the characters. I spent the first few chapters confused, trying to remember who was who and why they were important. After the large number of them introduced in Gone, I was afraid that the addition of more characters in Hunger would end up frustrating me, but their stories seemed to kind of .. intertwine, in a way.

Overall, Hunger is just as much as a page-turner as Gone, if not more. It brings new light to new horrors, new characters, new feelings, new creatures and everything else that was amazing in Gone. If you were a fan of the first one, I definitely recommend that you pick this one up now!

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Hunger is the continuation of Gone. Hunger takes place during the time when both Caine and Sam's sides are starving.

It's been three months since the start of the FAYZ and things are going from bad to worse. With no adults around, kids are running amuck - drinking, smoking pot, ganging up on each other. Even worse, food supplies are dwindling and kids are very hungry. The lack of food brings out the worst in the

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kids as some use the food shortage to their advantage. When 15 year old Sam Temple, the "mayor" of Perdido Beach, isn't busy dealing with the human problems, he's also dealing with the supernatural elements, including his own powers. And then there are the worm-like creatures that are keeping the kids from picking much needed crops. But the worst problem all the kids face is the mysterious "gaiaphage" a creature desperately trying to become more powerful and is a threat to everyone's life.

"Hunger (A Gone Novel)" is the well done second book in Michael Grant's Gone series (the first book is appropriately enough called "Gone"). Grant, who reminds me of a Stephen King for the teenage set, wastes no time getting the action going in this book, much like he did with "Gone". There is plenty of action in this book, including some stuff that might not be for the squeamish. This is a long book but pay attention to all the details because something mentioned early in the book may be referenced to much later - for example, Nestor, a brilliant bit of writing by Grant. Grant does an excellent job of creating characters who, while many of them have powers and many are doing a great job of struggling to survive, in the end they are just, as Sam says, kids trying to survive in a world filled with monsters (some human and some not) with no adults to show them the way. (As an example of how young some of them really are many of the kids try to use their powers to fly or be a superhero). You can't help but feel sorry for some of the characters (and hate others). My one complaint about the book and series is that there are too many characters and some, like Mary, Orsay, and Quinn, tend to get lost in the shuffle. Also, having characters with similar names like Brianna and Britney can be confusing.

"Hunger" ends on a bit of a cliffhanger and readers will eagerly await their next visit to the FAYZ. Well done.

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This is the second book of the series of Gone. The small beach town of the Fayz is going hungry. Food is being stolen or lost. The whole town is desperate. Everyone is starving and will do anything for just a little food. Some people are also getting powers like Sam, who can control green light

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from his hands. Although, the other non power people are thinking of turning against the power people. The town starts splitting into half. One group becoming the "Human Crew." The other being known as "Moofs" or freaks. Sam, being called the mayor of the town, is forced to deal with the groups. Sam also receives word that the power plant, that is the only thing giving electricity to the whole Fayz, is captured by Sam's brother, Caine. Caine has powers now too, although he is being haunted and unwarily controlled by the "Gaiaphage": the thing healer Lana meet in the mine shaft. Lana is also being controlled and tries to kill the Gaiaphage by herself.

This book was really interesting. There weren't that many deaths as the last book. Instead, there was more hope that the Fayz could have. A lot of the people were confused and desperate but they also found some places where know types of food grew. They also found out how to fish. They even practiced their powers more and started a currency. So, yeah, this book was good and I'd say four stars.

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Next book in the series but not lacking any adventure. Even more suspenseful than gone and ends at a very bad part which makes the reader flip the page expecting more.

This is the sequel to Gone. In this book huger threatens the kids in the FAYZ. Sam is having to deal with every little thing that happens. Caine, his evil brother, has decided that he will take the power plant to gain control. Drake, who is one of the most powerful kids in the FAYZ is thinking of

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taking Caine on. Caine takes the power plant. Sam tries to stop him but it turns into a siege. Lana tries to kill the Darkness but her mind is taken over. Zil has decided that he should try to take over the city. He is defeated by Sam. Caine escapes from the power plant with a uranium rod to feed the Darkness with. He gets up to the cave where the Darkness is, but Drake beats him, but then Sam comes to save the day. Caine and Sam work together the defeat Drake and the Darkness. They also free Lana. Now the Darkness is gone but there is still a fight going on between Caine, Sam, and Zil.
This book is very interesting, because there are super powers, wars and much more. I like how Sam is like being destroyed from all the pressure. He and Astrid have to work together to keep the kids working. I also like how Caine always thinks he has won, but something always goes wrong. The book is also very interesting because all of the super powers. I like to see all the different powers and how they can do anything with them. Hunger is a five star book and every one should read it.

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Just as good as the first, Hunger gives us another satisfying adventure. With its perfectly blended mixture of adventure, science fiction, tension, and suspense, Hunger is a great addition to the Gone series.

Second book to the Gone Series, and a fabulous addition at that. I would say that this book is a little bit darker, but that's not entirely the case, since Gone was defintley a page turner itself. Hunger is exactly what the title suggests- all the children from the FAYZ are starting to regret all

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those wasteful first weeks the dome came down. The faces are still all familiar and playing the roles they had in the first book, but there are also a few new additions. Gaiphage (the presence in the mine) plays a much larger part, and the new girl, Orsay, is pulled into the middle of the two groups.
In Hunger, you really get to see the depths of mental illness in the charcter Drake. Caine's crew is up to their evil antics again, but neglect to realize that it will also impact their groups as well as Sam's. A new group of evil doers also begins to merge- the Human Crew, led by a conspicuous and small charcter, Zil.

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This is a 3.5 stars really.

I have to admit I did not enjoy this one as much as Gone but boy does it leave you with a cliff hanger and anxiously waiting to find out what will happen in the next book. This second book definitely felt darker to me and more along the lines of Lord of the Flies. There

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are killer snakes guarding fields of food, "normal" kids facing off against the "freaks" and there is still the Darkness underground, bidding its time. While the Darkness, Caine and Drake are still threats the most disturbingly fascinating part of this book is seeing how everyone is reacting to the panic of the lack of food and what they are willing to do for any piece of food they can get. I felt the book could have been much shorter than the near 600 pages but I still cannot wait for the next book to see what Caine will do next and what happens with Brittany.

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Sequels are often disappointing, especially in a projected series. So I started Hunger hoping for the best but expecting the worst. This is a true sequel...no annoying recaps of the first book taking up a lot of room. The children of Perdido Beach are now facing an enemy worse than Caine and his

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scary pack of murderous preppies: hunger. All the junk food is gone and the good food has rotted (of course! little kids would always choose cookies over chicken!). Sam is desperately trying to hold it all together by harvesting farmers' fields. The problem is that they are all being guarded by worms with deadly teeth (another mutation). As hunger weakens the children, Caine makes his move to conquer his brother and serve the dark being in the mine. And Sam ends up fighting a war for survival on multiple fronts.

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