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HUNGER: Book #2 In Gone Series

Michael Grant
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RM18.00

A Thrilling, Supernatural Action-Packed Science Fiction

Remarks Free Cover-Pages Wrapping
ISBN 9781405277051
Book Condition LIKE NEW
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher HarperCollins (Farshore)
Publication Date 07 May 2015
Pages 608
Weight 0.51 kg
Dimension 20 × 13 × 4.2 cm
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The second book in Michael Grant’s New York Times bestselling Gone series, Hunger is a thrilling, action-packed story that is impossible to put down.
 
It’s been three months since all the adults disappeared. Gone. Food ran out weeks ago and starvation is imminent. Meanwhile, the normal teens have grown resentful of the kids with powers. And when an unthinkable tragedy occurs, chaos descends upon the town. There is no longer right and wrong.
 
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.
 
In Gone (the first book of the series), a gigantic bubble called the FAYZ surrounded and trapped everyone younger than 15. No one knows what’s happened to the adults. That was three months ago. Now food is in short supply. Kids from a private reform school called Coates — its leader Caine, violent henchman Drake and Caine’s love, Diana — battle for power against Caine’s brother, Sam, and the majority of the other more than 300 kids in the FAYZ.


Sam and his girlfriend, Astrid, try to provide food and guidance for the children, some of whom are very young. But killer mutant worms are eating the few remaining crops. Some of the kids are mutating, too, developing powers such as the ability to run at high speeds, heal others, burrow into the ground, or in Sam’s case, shoot fire from his hands.
 
There’s also the threat of the Darkness, an illusive being otherwise known as the gaiaphage, who lives in a mineshaft. No one has seen him, but he mentally calls to various children, telling them he needs them or that he’s hungry.
 
Readers learn snippets about a number of different kids and the wounds they bring with them into the FAYZ. Mary, for example, continues her obsessive anorexic exercising and purging behaviors. Other kids recall abuse due to their parents’ drug and alcohol addictions. Most of the Coates students are rich kids with behavioral issues.
 
They continue to exhibit violent tendencies as they fight for control in the FAYZ. When Coates leader, Caine, awakens from three months in a confused mental state, he calls the remaining Coates coeds to action. They make a plan to take control of the power plant and leave Sam’s part of the city in darkness. In the midst of a standoff with Sam and his people at the plant, Caine realizes the gaiaphage is controlling his mind. It wants him to gather uranium to feed it, and Caine can’t stop himself from obeying.
 
Caine forces a computer genius named Jack to help him prepare and transport the dangerous material to the mine. Meanwhile, the healer Lana goes to the mine to confront the gaiaphage. She battles mutant coyotes before getting inside. She discovers the gaiaphage is strange combination of pulsating lights, flesh and stone, human and alien, which has been nurtured and mutated by the radiation from a past power plant explosion.
 
It inhabits her body, causing her to shoot her friend Edilio when he comes to help her. Back in Sam’s part of town, a boy named Zil launches a hate campaign against the “freaks,” or all of the kids who have developed special powers.
 
He and his friends rally other “normals” to help them torture and hang freaks. When Astrid tries to stop them, they capture her and her disabled brother, Little Pete. Caine, Drake and Diana arrive at the mine with uranium to feed the gaiaphage.
 
Drake, who has always resented Caine and coveted his power, injures Diana. Sam arrives to stop Caine from feeding the gaiaphage. Distraught over Diana’s near death, Caine works with Sam to destroy Drake. They throw a fuel rod through Drake’s body, and he falls into the mine. This causes the mine to explode with Lana still trapped inside. Sam asks a mutant boy named Duck to use his power to burrow deep into the earth.
 
Sam, Caine and Duck enter the mine through the hole Duck has made. Duck throws himself into the gaiaphage to burrow through and destroy it. They’re unable to find Duck’s body afterward. Sam and Caine rescue Lana, who manages to save most of the other injured children above ground using her healing power.
 
A mutated boy named Orc prevents the hangings in town by breaking several of Zil’s ribs. As the book ends, readers hear from a girl named Brittany who everyone thought was killed at the plant. She has apparently been buried alive, attached to a large slug-like animal.
 
Read the entire series:
– Gone
– Hunger
– Lies
– Plague
– Fear
– Light
– Monster
– Villain
– Hero
 
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About the Author
 
Michael Grant, author of the Gone series, the Messenger of Fear series, the Magnificent Twelve series, and the Front Lines trilogy, has spent much of his life on the move. Raised in a military family, he attended ten schools in five states, as well as three schools in France. Even as an adult he kept moving, and in fact he became a writer in part because it was one of the few jobs that wouldn’t tie him down. His fondest dream is to spend a year circumnavigating the globe and visiting every continent. Yes, even Antarctica. He lives in California with his wife, Katherine Applegate, with whom he cowrote the wildly popular Animorphs series.
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