Plague by Michael Grant

Plague (Gone, #4)

by Michael Grant

Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 4 in the series that Stephen King calls a `driving, torrential narrative'.

Disease is spreading through the streets of Perdido Beach: a devastating, hacking cough that makes the sufferers choke their guts up - literally.

Across town, Little Pete lies unconscious, struck down by the mysterious illness. With the most powerful mutant in the FAYZ out of action, the future of the world hangs in the balance...

The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. This is dystopian fiction at its best.

Have you got all 6 titles in the New York Times bestselling saga: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear, and Light?

`I am now free to leave the FAYZ, but my time there was well spent' Stephen King

If you love GONE, be sure not to miss Michael's new series Front Lines - it's WWII but not as you know it! The first book is Front Lines, followed by Silver Stars. Michael Grant also has a World Book Day book, Dead of Night, which is set in the Front Lines universe and written exclusively for World Book Day 2017.

Michael Grant has lived an exciting, fast-paced life. He moved in with his wife Katherine Applegate after only 24 hours. He has co-authored over 160 books but promises that everything he writes is like nothing you've ever read before! If the Gone series has left you hungry for more from the dark genius of YA fiction, look out for the BZRK trilogy: BZRK, BZRK Reloaded, BZRK Apocalypse and the terrifying Messenger of Fear and its sequel The Tattooed Heart. Michael is a World Book Day author for 2017.

Reviewed by Stephanie on

4 of 5 stars

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I’m a squeamish sort of person. Horror movies gross me out. Bad injuries make me cringe. Blood? Forget about it. I’m the type of person that got anxiety watching Kenan and Kel. Needless to say, a book entitled Plague was really masochistic on my part. And this was probably not going to be just any plague, since its appearance is in Michael Grant’s Gone series. In a small beach town where we’ve already met kids that have super powers, a radioactive monster called the Darkness, and kids with whip hands, Plague was going to be anything but normal.

I’m sure I could go into detail about all these gruesome aspects, but I’ll spare the squeamish like me and the excitable people who watch horror movies for fun. I’m on to you guys.

In Plague, the flu epidemic from the Lies has taken a turn for the worse. Kids are becoming deathly ill and Perdido Beach is running out of water (like they didn’t need anything else to be thrown in their face). Albert sends Sam and a crew of people to investigate the problem, and ultimately figure out a solution. With the town virtually defenseless without Sam, Drake/Brittany decide to break free and wreck havoc on the town, a la Darkness style. With kids unable to fight back, someone has to call in the big guns. Plague often left me in a state of ‘oh snap!’, which has only happened a few times since the initial Gone days.

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