(590 pages)
Pub. date: 05/26/09
Series: Gone #2
My rating: 4/5
About the book:
It's been three months since everyone under the age of fifteen became trapped in the bubble known as the FAYZ.
Three months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.
Food ran out weeks ago. Everyone is starving, but no one wants to figure out a solution. And each day, more and more kids are evolving, developing supernatural abilities that set them apart from the kids without powers. Tension rises and chaos is descending upon the town. It's the normal kids against the mutants. Each kid is out for himself, and even the good ones turn murderous.
But a larger problem looms. The Darkness, a sinister creature that has lived buried deep in the hills, begins calling to some of the teens in the FAYZ. Calling to them, guiding them, manipulating them.
The Darkness has awakened. And it is hungry.
My thoughts:
As much as I wasn't in love with Gone, Hunger drew me in and pretty much demanded I love it. While in Gone I felt overwhelmed with so many new characters being introduced with Hunger that wasn't as much of an issue. I already had a whole book to get to know everyone so I wasn't always thinking, wait, who was this person again? These were characters I'd already come to love from the first book. There were a few new characters introduced, and a few more minor characters were given larger roles in Hunger, but for the most part I wasn't overwhelmed with new characters and trying to remember who did what. (Side note, I thought Taylor turned invisible in the first book, but in the second she has the power to bounce from place to place. Is it just me forgetting, or is it something you noticed too?)
I really liked how Sam's character developed throughout the second book. Last book it was all yay-Sam-this and yay-Sam-that, and it got rather tiring how he was always the good guy. But now he's making mistakes. The fact that he's just a fifteen year old kid is starting to show and is making him seem more human. I like him a lot better this time around. I think his relationship with Astrid is really cute, and although normally I'd say it's over the top, in this situation (being no adults present ad all) I think it fits okay.
Caine... I have to say I feel bad about the guy. He's been to visit the Darkness and is left scarred and out of commission for three months. His mother gave him up for adoption but kept his twin brother Sam. He's in love with Diana but she treats him like crap and I'm not really sure what she feels towards him. And he, and everyone else at Coates Academy, is starving. Honestly, the guy can't catch a break. He may be the antagonist, or one of them, but I actually really like the guy and I keep finding myself hoping he turns good sometime soon and joins up with Sam.
There are so many other characters I'd like to talk about but there just isn't time. Or, well, I don't have the paitence to sit here and talk about every single major or semi-major character in the book. It would take too long. So I'll just say a little something about my favorites.
Edilio: LOVE this boy! He's a genuinely nice guy and loyal friend to Sam, who really needs loyal friends right now. Keep waiting for his plot to thicken though.
Quinn: Started out in Gone not liking him, but gradually came to like him okay in Hunger. Still has a lot of redeeming to do though.
Drake: Words cannot express how horrible, cruel, twisted, sick and stupid this boy is. As much as I hate him I love his character. His is one of the most fun to read about because he's so crazy and you never know what he'll do.
Diana: One of the characters I really don't care for. She's manipulative and smart and sometimes nice but most often she's a b-i-t-c-h. She acts like she cares about people and then throws them under the bus. She manipulates everyone, including Caine, who she possibly cares about. I really want to see her be the next one to die.
Little Pete: All I'm going to say is that he started out a little cutie, but this kid is getting creepier than ten Drake's combined. Something even bigger is going to happen with this kid but I have no clue what.
My favorite part about Hunger came in tow parts. First, people really started going crazy. Food was running out and kids wanted to eat. They didn't care how they got the food, or hat it was, they just wanted food. They didn't care if it liver or mushrooms or their nieghbour's cat. And this hunger was driving kids to do crazy things. Kids were rebelling against Sam, the "freaks", everything. And this hunger is what lead to my other favorite part. The plot didn't stop. Partly because of the many POVs and partly because kids were always getting up to something, or trying to kill someone or developing new powers. I was frantically turning pages trying to figure out what was going to happen next. And I usually couldn't guess. This book is just so far out from pretty much any other book I've read. It's random and crazy and unpredictable which is what is keeping me reading. (And waiting VERY impatiently for the third book to get here from the library. The second I finished Hunger I wanted tit to morph into the third book, Lies. Sadly, that didn't happen.)
So although I wasn't crazy about Gone, Hunger blew me off my feet. The only reason I'm giving it a four star instead of five is because of the fact that there really are just too many people and POVs tto keep track of. That and the fact that I find the girls a little under played. Wrote? Whatever. It seems like the guys are getting all the action while the girls (like Diana and Astrid) are being pushed to the side.
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