Lies (Gone, #3)

by Michael Grant

It happens in one night: a girl who died now walks among the living, Zil and the Human Crew set fire to Perdido Beach, and amid the flames and smoke, Sam sees the figure of the boy he fears the most - Drake. But Sam and Caine defeated him along with the Darkness - or so they thought. As Perdido Beach burns, battles rage: Astrid against the Town Council; the Human Crew versus the mutants; and Sam against Drake. And the prophetess Orsay and her companion, Nerezza, are preaching that death will set them all free. As life in the FAYZ becomes more desperate, no one knows who they can trust.

• ISBN10: 0061449113
• ISBN13: 9780061449116
• Publish Date: 8 April 2014 (first published 4 May 2010)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 464
• Language: English

Reviews

[Kelly]

Honestly, was this Hunger with a new cover stuck on it? 90% of the book was just the same story, except with more fire and brimstone crap in it. And stupid me persisted with it. That's it for me. I'm done. Be gone!

Good day sir...



I said, good day.

[Chelsea]

Quick thoughts:
1. I don't think I'm as in love with series as everyone else is. It's only ok for me.
2. The characters annoy me. A lot. Why are they so dumb? To be fair they are realistic.
3. The villain is starting to creep me out. I don't understand it at all.
4. The plot in this book was better. I liked the new characters that were introduced and it wasn't so typical this time.
5. It wasn't a bad book I just think that it could have been better.

See full review here.

[Nessa Luna]

Read this review, and many more on my blog October Tune!

After reading Hunger, and not liking it very much, I was very reluctant to read the rest of the series. Still, when I was in Amsterdam and I saw Lies on the discount shelf at American Book Center, I decided to take it with me just because.

I have to admit, I wasn't really looking forward to reading Lies, mainly because Hunger had disappointed me a bit. But I can't stand it when I don't finish a series, so eventually I just got myself a copy of Lies because I really wanted to know how the story goes on. I got through Lies a lot quicker than Hunger and I liked it a lot more as well. Maybe it had to do with the fact that Lies was a bit thinner than the previous two books (Gone had 558 pages, Hunger had 590 pages and Lies only 446).

The writing was very good, as usual, I just enjoy Michael Grant's writing a lot, but personally I would have loved a bit less POV's in the series. Especially since every book has new characters that weren't there in the previous books. In Lies, we're introduced to five new characters who live on one of the islands trapped in the FAYZ. I liked reading about them, but I was just a tiny bit annoyed because there were another five characters I needed to remember in the upcoming books.

Of course, there are also still the original characters; Sam, Astrid, Little Pete, Quinn, Caine, Diana, etc. And I liked reading about them (okay I hated reading about Caine, but still). They all have issues, like the fights Sam and Astrid have, the fact that Caine and Diana and the other Coates kids are nearly starving to death; and I liked them for that. They weren't perfect, Astrid wasn't the perfect 'genius' that she was supposed to be, Sam wasn't the perfect hero that everyone thought he was, but that didn't matter. I liked them. And honestly, it would pain me to see any one of them leaving (yes, even Caine, though he's just a pain in the arse).

Lies is also the first book in the series, where we hear about people on the outside of the FAYZ, which made me really happy. I do kind of hope we'll be hearing more from them, but for some reason I think that's not going to happen, oh well, a girl can hope!

I was also very annoyed by the Human Crew in this book. It reminded me a lot of those people inside the bus in the Midnight episode of Doctor Who. It shows you how horrible humans can be during a situation like this, and I think Grant did a VERY good job at it with the Human Crew. Every time I read about them wanting to kill the 'freaks' I cringed and wrote down I wanted Zil to be punished.

In the end, I am really happy with Lies because it means I will probably be less reluctant to finish the rest of the series. I definitely recommend this series to anyone who wants to read a nice dystopia story that isn't a trilogy!

[Stephanie]

For anyone that has read my previous review of Michael Grant’s Gone series will know that I suffer from a love-hate relationship with the kids of Perdido Beach. Too many to keep track of, so little pages to figure them all out. The third installment of Michael Grant’s Gone Series “Lies” finally takes a step back from new introductions (there’s only three new ones instead of twelve!) and focuses on what makes the Gone series interesting — the kids.

When I was in highschool, I adored Lord of the Flies. Leave semi-educated children alone in isolation and there is bound to be some infighting, politics and social disaster. For while, Grant’s Gone series skimmed the surface of that scenario, rather, writing about a radioactive monster lurking in the shadows that was driving everyone crazy, and to some extent, murderous. Toward the end of Hunger, Grant finally wised up some of the non-mutant kids who wanted to rule the town and put all those ‘freaks’ down.

Lies picks up where Hunger left off. There is no three month gap like previous books. The Human Crew has sectioned off their side of the town, getting rid of any mutant that shows their face near their barricade. Lies focuses on the natural implosion of Perdido Beach that has been run by children who have no set of rules or government, just a measly town council who hasn’t had their own hand forced to act. Add in a bit of religious preaching and unwilling prophets, and poofing at the age of fifteen is starting to sound better than ‘living in hell’, as Mother Mary so plainly states it.

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