| Gone- hit selling novel- by Michael Grant |
A life without any adults: parents, teachers, dentists and annoying siblings who think they have the right right to lecture you because they have past the age of 15, fun right (or so it seems). Gone is the first part to the sequel thriller of children under the age of 15 learning to fend for themselves because in the world of California everyone over the age of 15 disappears- gone.
The novel follows a group of children trying to pull through in the unexpected experiences they have been forced to survive in. Michael Grant cleverly puts the book in a special format; he moves on to the children's individual experiences bit by bit, sometimes after a paragraph sometimes after a chapter sometimes after a certain scene in the book. This gives the book excitement, ruling out the possibility of predictably and keeps the reader on the tip of their seat; normally in a book when the narrator follows more than one character in different scenes they move on to the next phase in the next chapter but Grant alters the normal tradition and sets his book differently. Despite following different character's experiences the reader is never made to feel confused or uncomfortably altered, instead the flow between the different series of events is done so effortlessly it feels natural, to add to that the characters are all linked in some way (some more than others) so it doesn't feel like a bunch of characters randomly jumbled together. There are (in true fashion) villains in the story and I think it has been established that to make an interesting villain it needs to have a complex side much more than the static evilness they have been portrayed as in the past. So what better way to show these sides than Grant's way (telling their side of the story)?
The protagonist of the story is your typical hero (or so he seems on the surface) a young boy- Sam Temple- who is hardly noticed by others, has no extraordinary powers and suddenly comes to the realization that he is not worthless, comes to everyone's aid and gains a power. Typical. So Grant has given us a typical hero but he sure knows how to work with him and whether you wanted a different type of hero you find yourself warming to him and relating to him, he doesn't automatically step in to the role of a hero, in fact he doesn't see himself as quite a leader at the end of the book maybe his journey is to gradually fulfill that role or maybe he will give the job of being a hero to an unexpected character in the book.
The antagonist of the book is calm and collected quite the charmer perhaps a girl's ideal boy (well until they find out he's pretty awkward with girls), sounds like a hero. He's not. There are quite a few twists and turns with this character, I guess he is for me to play with and for you to find out.
Romance. Well I guess it is pretty much aimed at a teenage group so it will be there in unexpected characters and obvious choices, it will not dominate the story, no, that's what suspense is for but it will be there. The plot is fast paced and full of surprises you're convinced you're going to know what happens next but you'll be in for a shock.
This book has grabbed my attention and refused to release it. It's a winner for me! 10/10
The novel follows a group of children trying to pull through in the unexpected experiences they have been forced to survive in. Michael Grant cleverly puts the book in a special format; he moves on to the children's individual experiences bit by bit, sometimes after a paragraph sometimes after a chapter sometimes after a certain scene in the book. This gives the book excitement, ruling out the possibility of predictably and keeps the reader on the tip of their seat; normally in a book when the narrator follows more than one character in different scenes they move on to the next phase in the next chapter but Grant alters the normal tradition and sets his book differently. Despite following different character's experiences the reader is never made to feel confused or uncomfortably altered, instead the flow between the different series of events is done so effortlessly it feels natural, to add to that the characters are all linked in some way (some more than others) so it doesn't feel like a bunch of characters randomly jumbled together. There are (in true fashion) villains in the story and I think it has been established that to make an interesting villain it needs to have a complex side much more than the static evilness they have been portrayed as in the past. So what better way to show these sides than Grant's way (telling their side of the story)?
The protagonist of the story is your typical hero (or so he seems on the surface) a young boy- Sam Temple- who is hardly noticed by others, has no extraordinary powers and suddenly comes to the realization that he is not worthless, comes to everyone's aid and gains a power. Typical. So Grant has given us a typical hero but he sure knows how to work with him and whether you wanted a different type of hero you find yourself warming to him and relating to him, he doesn't automatically step in to the role of a hero, in fact he doesn't see himself as quite a leader at the end of the book maybe his journey is to gradually fulfill that role or maybe he will give the job of being a hero to an unexpected character in the book.
The antagonist of the book is calm and collected quite the charmer perhaps a girl's ideal boy (well until they find out he's pretty awkward with girls), sounds like a hero. He's not. There are quite a few twists and turns with this character, I guess he is for me to play with and for you to find out.
Romance. Well I guess it is pretty much aimed at a teenage group so it will be there in unexpected characters and obvious choices, it will not dominate the story, no, that's what suspense is for but it will be there. The plot is fast paced and full of surprises you're convinced you're going to know what happens next but you'll be in for a shock.
This book has grabbed my attention and refused to release it. It's a winner for me! 10/10
Gone (novel) Review
| Gone- hit selling novel- by Michael Grant |
A life without any adults: parents, teachers, dentists and annoying siblings who think they have the right right to lecture you because they have past the age of 15, fun right (or so it seems). Gone is the first part to the sequel thriller of children under the age of 15 learning to fend for themselves because in the world of California everyone over the age of 15 disappears- gone.
The novel follows a group of children trying to pull through in the unexpected experiences they have been forced to survive in. Michael Grant cleverly puts the book in a special format; he moves on to the children's individual experiences bit by bit, sometimes after a paragraph sometimes after a chapter sometimes after a certain scene in the book. This gives the book excitement, ruling out the possibility of predictably and keeps the reader on the tip of their seat; normally in a book when the narrator follows more than one character in different scenes they move on to the next phase in the next chapter but Grant alters the normal tradition and sets his book differently. Despite following different character's experiences the reader is never made to feel confused or uncomfortably altered, instead the flow between the different series of events is done so effortlessly it feels natural, to add to that the characters are all linked in some way (some more than others) so it doesn't feel like a bunch of characters randomly jumbled together. There are (in true fashion) villains in the story and I think it has been established that to make an interesting villain it needs to have a complex side much more than the static evilness they have been portrayed as in the past. So what better way to show these sides than Grant's way (telling their side of the story)?
The protagonist of the story is your typical hero (or so he seems on the surface) a young boy- Sam Temple- who is hardly noticed by others, has no extraordinary powers and suddenly comes to the realization that he is not worthless, comes to everyone's aid and gains a power. Typical. So Grant has given us a typical hero but he sure knows how to work with him and whether you wanted a different type of hero you find yourself warming to him and relating to him, he doesn't automatically step in to the role of a hero, in fact he doesn't see himself as quite a leader at the end of the book maybe his journey is to gradually fulfill that role or maybe he will give the job of being a hero to an unexpected character in the book.
The antagonist of the book is calm and collected quite the charmer perhaps a girl's ideal boy (well until they find out he's pretty awkward with girls), sounds like a hero. He's not. There are quite a few twists and turns with this character, I guess he is for me to play with and for you to find out.
Romance. Well I guess it is pretty much aimed at a teenage group so it will be there in unexpected characters and obvious choices, it will not dominate the story, no, that's what suspense is for but it will be there. The plot is fast paced and full of surprises you're convinced you're going to know what happens next but you'll be in for a shock.
This book has grabbed my attention and refused to release it. It's a winner for me! 10/10
The novel follows a group of children trying to pull through in the unexpected experiences they have been forced to survive in. Michael Grant cleverly puts the book in a special format; he moves on to the children's individual experiences bit by bit, sometimes after a paragraph sometimes after a chapter sometimes after a certain scene in the book. This gives the book excitement, ruling out the possibility of predictably and keeps the reader on the tip of their seat; normally in a book when the narrator follows more than one character in different scenes they move on to the next phase in the next chapter but Grant alters the normal tradition and sets his book differently. Despite following different character's experiences the reader is never made to feel confused or uncomfortably altered, instead the flow between the different series of events is done so effortlessly it feels natural, to add to that the characters are all linked in some way (some more than others) so it doesn't feel like a bunch of characters randomly jumbled together. There are (in true fashion) villains in the story and I think it has been established that to make an interesting villain it needs to have a complex side much more than the static evilness they have been portrayed as in the past. So what better way to show these sides than Grant's way (telling their side of the story)?
The protagonist of the story is your typical hero (or so he seems on the surface) a young boy- Sam Temple- who is hardly noticed by others, has no extraordinary powers and suddenly comes to the realization that he is not worthless, comes to everyone's aid and gains a power. Typical. So Grant has given us a typical hero but he sure knows how to work with him and whether you wanted a different type of hero you find yourself warming to him and relating to him, he doesn't automatically step in to the role of a hero, in fact he doesn't see himself as quite a leader at the end of the book maybe his journey is to gradually fulfill that role or maybe he will give the job of being a hero to an unexpected character in the book.
The antagonist of the book is calm and collected quite the charmer perhaps a girl's ideal boy (well until they find out he's pretty awkward with girls), sounds like a hero. He's not. There are quite a few twists and turns with this character, I guess he is for me to play with and for you to find out.
Romance. Well I guess it is pretty much aimed at a teenage group so it will be there in unexpected characters and obvious choices, it will not dominate the story, no, that's what suspense is for but it will be there. The plot is fast paced and full of surprises you're convinced you're going to know what happens next but you'll be in for a shock.
This book has grabbed my attention and refused to release it. It's a winner for me! 10/10
Gone (novel) Review
| Gone- hit selling novel- by Michael Grant |
A life without any adults: parents, teachers, dentists and annoying siblings who think they have the right right to lecture you because they have past the age of 15, fun right (or so it seems). Gone is the first part to the sequel thriller of children under the age of 15 learning to fend for themselves because in the world of California everyone over the age of 15 disappears- gone.
The novel follows a group of children trying to pull through in the unexpected experiences they have been forced to survive in. Michael Grant cleverly puts the book in a special format; he moves on to the children's individual experiences bit by bit, sometimes after a paragraph sometimes after a chapter sometimes after a certain scene in the book. This gives the book excitement, ruling out the possibility of predictably and keeps the reader on the tip of their seat; normally in a book when the narrator follows more than one character in different scenes they move on to the next phase in the next chapter but Grant alters the normal tradition and sets his book differently. Despite following different character's experiences the reader is never made to feel confused or uncomfortably altered, instead the flow between the different series of events is done so effortlessly it feels natural, to add to that the characters are all linked in some way (some more than others) so it doesn't feel like a bunch of characters randomly jumbled together. There are (in true fashion) villains in the story and I think it has been established that to make an interesting villain it needs to have a complex side much more than the static evilness they have been portrayed as in the past. So what better way to show these sides than Grant's way (telling their side of the story)?
The protagonist of the story is your typical hero (or so he seems on the surface) a young boy- Sam Temple- who is hardly noticed by others, has no extraordinary powers and suddenly comes to the realization that he is not worthless, comes to everyone's aid and gains a power. Typical. So Grant has given us a typical hero but he sure knows how to work with him and whether you wanted a different type of hero you find yourself warming to him and relating to him, he doesn't automatically step in to the role of a hero, in fact he doesn't see himself as quite a leader at the end of the book maybe his journey is to gradually fulfill that role or maybe he will give the job of being a hero to an unexpected character in the book.
The antagonist of the book is calm and collected quite the charmer perhaps a girl's ideal boy (well until they find out he's pretty awkward with girls), sounds like a hero. He's not. There are quite a few twists and turns with this character, I guess he is for me to play with and for you to find out.
Romance. Well I guess it is pretty much aimed at a teenage group so it will be there in unexpected characters and obvious choices, it will not dominate the story, no, that's what suspense is for but it will be there. The plot is fast paced and full of surprises you're convinced you're going to know what happens next but you'll be in for a shock.
This book has grabbed my attention and refused to release it. It's a winner for me! 10/10
The novel follows a group of children trying to pull through in the unexpected experiences they have been forced to survive in. Michael Grant cleverly puts the book in a special format; he moves on to the children's individual experiences bit by bit, sometimes after a paragraph sometimes after a chapter sometimes after a certain scene in the book. This gives the book excitement, ruling out the possibility of predictably and keeps the reader on the tip of their seat; normally in a book when the narrator follows more than one character in different scenes they move on to the next phase in the next chapter but Grant alters the normal tradition and sets his book differently. Despite following different character's experiences the reader is never made to feel confused or uncomfortably altered, instead the flow between the different series of events is done so effortlessly it feels natural, to add to that the characters are all linked in some way (some more than others) so it doesn't feel like a bunch of characters randomly jumbled together. There are (in true fashion) villains in the story and I think it has been established that to make an interesting villain it needs to have a complex side much more than the static evilness they have been portrayed as in the past. So what better way to show these sides than Grant's way (telling their side of the story)?
The protagonist of the story is your typical hero (or so he seems on the surface) a young boy- Sam Temple- who is hardly noticed by others, has no extraordinary powers and suddenly comes to the realization that he is not worthless, comes to everyone's aid and gains a power. Typical. So Grant has given us a typical hero but he sure knows how to work with him and whether you wanted a different type of hero you find yourself warming to him and relating to him, he doesn't automatically step in to the role of a hero, in fact he doesn't see himself as quite a leader at the end of the book maybe his journey is to gradually fulfill that role or maybe he will give the job of being a hero to an unexpected character in the book.
The antagonist of the book is calm and collected quite the charmer perhaps a girl's ideal boy (well until they find out he's pretty awkward with girls), sounds like a hero. He's not. There are quite a few twists and turns with this character, I guess he is for me to play with and for you to find out.
Romance. Well I guess it is pretty much aimed at a teenage group so it will be there in unexpected characters and obvious choices, it will not dominate the story, no, that's what suspense is for but it will be there. The plot is fast paced and full of surprises you're convinced you're going to know what happens next but you'll be in for a shock.
This book has grabbed my attention and refused to release it. It's a winner for me! 10/10
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