Gone, by Michael Grant

yeah so i know i did my blog presentation on this (and made a complete idiot out of myself but its okay because most of you already know that im an idiot and if you dont then wow look at that you learned something today) but i want to do a post on it to so im going to cuz this is my blog dont tell me what to do so yeah basically this book is called gone and its by michael grant and its the first book in a series of 6 (gone hunger lies plague fear light) and maryam introduced me to these books and theyre soo amazing but theyre not very deep and metaphorical in a john green kind of a way its more like a hunger games kind of a way but slightly less but similar. and itS KIND OF HARD TO SHIP THINGS WHEN EVERYONE IS DEAD (hehe all my friends are dead) (literally) (ohmYGOD WHAT HAVE I DONE THAT WAS HORRIBLE IM CRYING NO THAT JOKE WAS NOT WORTH THE FEELS OH DEAR)
but anyway if you dont want to read the whole thing just skip to the end and answer the questions okay bc im curious

Summary:

so basically what happens is theres this tiny little town called perdido beach and it has a nuclear power plant but sometimes people call it fallout alley because earlier a meteor hit the plant and a bunch of radiation leaked into the ground and what happens is magically everyone over the age of 15 pops out of the town and everyone under the age of 15 is trapped in this dome that surrounds the town. but once you turn 15 you have the choice to pop out or not but at first no one knew where you went so that was a difficult decision. so the animals and people are both mutating and developing powers and abnormalities and stuff like that  (which is one reason why i like this book so much cuz genetic mutation makes a super interesting sci fi story) and they call the dome the FAYZ (fallout alley youth zone) but its mostly about this boy sam and his girlfriend astrid and they have to put in place a government and organize all the kids and plan all this stuff. astrids little brother pete, who is autistic, probably had something to do with it all and he may have caused it but they dont know how. but anyway so the bullies are beating up kids, people are starving, theres no food or water or electricity or wifi or anything and they have to figure out 1) why everyone is mutating 2) how to stay alive with all the stuff happening 3) how to feed like 600 kids who dont want to work 4) what did little pete have to do with it 5) how do they get out 6) why did it happen in the first place and probably lots more stuff. 

but anyway i am going to make this helpful little list here of names and what power they have.

• Sam can shoot beams of light out of his palms
• Caine - telekinesis
• Lana can heal any wound 
• Brianna can run super fast like speed-of-a-bullet fast
• Taylor can teleport
• Diana can read peoples powers to see how powerful they are
• Dekka can turn gravity on or off
• Bug can camouflage with his environment like a chameleon 
• Hunter can like direct heat and concentrate it in one place 
• andrew can like shoot shock waves from his hands that break concrete and stuff
• Computer Jack has super strength 
• astrid can like view peoples importance ?? i dont really understand her power 
• Orsay can view peoples dreams 
• Brittney can regenerate so shes like incapable of dying 
• Duck can control his density so like he can float in air or sink in water if he wants 
• Emily can do what taylor does but she can take people with her 
• Penny can create illusions and make people see things that arent really there
• Jill can sing and her voice is supposed to distract you and when she tells you to do something youre going to do it 
• and then little pete and gaia have most of these but to a much greater extent  

and yeah so caine and all the kids from coates academy want to rule over everyone but likea dictatorship so sam has to battle him and

SPOILERS

sam and caine are brothers *gasp* but anyway yeah. so thats basically what happens. 

Favorite Character: 

hey look i started a new section and thats cuz there are some characters that youre so incredibly in love with that itS NOT FAIR WHY ARENT THEY REAL 

but anwyay i guess it would be edilio because hes misunderstood and hes sad inside and hes so considerate and nice and people are so mean to him and awwww and also hes hilarious and also hes gay which only makes me love him more 

My overall opinion:

10/10 but you have to be okay with blood and guts so yeah. 

it was super amazing and its so interesting and the story is unique and complicated and addicting and its amazing like asdfghjkl; and like i said genetic mutation is super interesting so yeah and the characters are well developed bUT MOST OF THEM DIE SO IT DOESNT EVEN MATTER (like trust me veronica, joanne, suzanne, rick, and all the other authors i complain about look like saints compared to this guy) but its amazing like its well written and interesting and action - y and it has some romance but its not forced or like drowning in it or anything. the ending of the series bothered me a little but it was like the characters bothered me and they did what they should have done and what they would have done in that situation but like they were annoyyiinnggg. it was expected of them but it still annoyed me so i wasnt annoyed at michael grant (like i was annoyed at veronica at the end of allegiant when she tried to make tobias and christina a thing i was lIKE STAHP IT UGH) but what happens is that all the parents just assume theyre going to be emotionally and mentally okay after having dealt with that for months and killed so many people and seen so much terrible stuff like i was not okay after reading about it imagine having to ACTUALLY BE PART OF IT WUIEKFJDS. 

and heres the cover (i would have posted a picture of mine but i left it in my locker so too bad youre stuck with an image from google)

but this is a pretty cool thing that someone made and this is all the books:

but anyway i have some questions for you that are actually pretty interesting to think about and they areeee:

• if you could have any of these powers which one would you want
• if you were in sam or astrids or edilios or alberts situation and you turned 15 would you leave or stay (bc like you feel some responsibility to help all the people who arent so fortunate that they can leave but at the same time the FAYZ is horrible and you want to leave)