Whilst this book impressed me greatly, as did the first of the series, I found that there were still those little things that majorly irked me, even amid the fast-paced sci-fi and action told in a gripping and imaginative way; it was these little things that again prevented me from awarding the novel the 5 stars it would have otherwise deserved.

So what's the problem?
I can sum it up in two points:
1) Sam is a lame protagonist.
2) All the girls are 'cute'.

Let me explain.

Pointer number one: Sam is o More...

The Gone series is the type of series that has you marking down your calendars waiting for the next installment. Both Hunger, and its predecessor, Gone were gripping and fantastic. Hunger, while darker than Gone, really dove into deeper topics. The cast of the series is diverse in its variety, and you are free to pick your favorites. The dialogue, while nothing fantastic, is realistic and easy. Same as the writing. Yes, the writing has some grammatical mistakes and is far from lyrical, but it se More...

HUNGER is an amazing story because of the realistic characters, the spectacular

details put into the setting, and the way it shows the theme of accepting hard

responsibilities.. Some people may say that this novel is unrealistic, or too built on the

theme of finding weakness in others, but it shows taking on responsibility, even if it is

unwanted.

Sam Temple is one of the well crated characters in this book. He is a

fifteen year old boy who is forced to become a leader of hundreds of kids, after More...

Things aren’t getting any easier in the FAYZ (Fall-out Alley Youth Zone) since the big Thanksgiving Battle against Caine and the other Coates Academy kids. In fact, everything seems to be going from bad to worse. Sam, the appointed leader of Perdido Beach, is feeling the pressure of all the day to day decisions. The biggest problem that everyone is facing is starvation. With the fear and confusion that followed the disappearance of everyone 15 and over, the kids that were left did what they want More...

"Superpowers don't always make you a superhero."

It's been 3 months since all the adults disappeared. Gone.

But Perdido Beach has even more major problems. Food is running out, the kids starving, hungry. There are carnivorous worms, nicknamed "zekes", in the fields. All those vegetables unpicked. Will the zekes lead everyone to starvation?

Meanwhile, Caine has a plan to lower the morale of Perdido Beach by shutting off the power. But does he have an ulterior motive? And what is the gaiaphage?

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Pretty good! Though not as good as GONE: too many different plots and points of view made this book kind of hectic.

Michael Grant is definitely an author with a knack for action-driven stories heavy on suspense and excitement. Gone was a great beginning book for the series: it established the problem (all growups "poof" out and leave kids to fend for themselves) and dealt with the power struggles that ensued between the townies and the dysfunctional delinquents over at Coates. Hunger was therefor More...

Someone told me that Hunger is not as great as Gone. But man, I think Hunger is waaaay better than Gone. I'm not saying I didn't like Gone but my complain about GONE before was that everything happens so fast and its almost like a blur. For Hunger, the action scenes are sharper and the plot is more solid.

Michael Grant did an amazing job creating intense parallel events. There's always a huge thing happening in one place, at the same time on another place and sometimes also in an another differe More...

Fans of the first book will also enjoy this second in a projected series of six. While I enjoyed the book, I can't help longing for more books that stand alone instead of hooking readers into a series that requires a span of years to complete. I could forgive that with the Harry Potter series, especially since Harry ages a full year in each book, but it's just annoying when it becomes the norm. Don't get me wrong... I enjoyed Hunger, but the prospect of waiting another 4 years to find out what h More...

I think Lana is the best character so far. Very strong personality and strong will. The line " I am Lana Arwen Lazar. My Dad was into comic books, so he named me Lana for Superman's girlfriend Lana Lang. And my mom added Arwen for the elf princess in the Lord of the Rings. And I never, ever do what I'm told" is the best!

Brianna has the cutest personality.

Diana, a masochist.

Caine, a sadist.

Caine & Diana, tend to swap places.

Drake, plain mean.

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Either 3.5 stars or 4. I suppose it doesn't really matter.


I have had a crazy week, reading-wise. Christmas break happened, and suddenly my reading schedule just opened up. Started Hunger on Tuesday, finished it Wednesday. Read Paper Towns on Thursday. Read On the Jellicoe Road from Friday to Saturday. Now I have spent basically all of today, Sunday, sitting around mooning over Jellicoe Road. But I figured it was time to get some reviews up.

That all being said, not only have four days passed sinc More...

This is the best piece of YA commercial lit I've ever read.

Books filled with action like this, ones that are obviously marketed exclusively towards reluctant readers and boys (publishing companies typically consider the two to be one and the same) are usually books that I'm warry of, for the obvious reason that I'm not a reluctant reader. I have higher standards than that. I want character development and quality prose; I don't want to read an action movie in book form. Michael Grant's books are More...

I really enjoyed this follow-up to Gone. Hunger had just as much excitement, chaos, and action as its predecessor, with a little bit more characterization.

I loved how the main character, Sam Temple, evolved in this book. The burden imposed on him by the FAYZ has forced him to grow up prematurely, and it definitely takes a toll on him in Hunger. Despite this, however, Sam still manages to keep himself together enough to deal with all of the issues going on in the FAYZ, including the new problem o More...

Three months have passed since the end of Book 1 (Gone), and things are getting desperate for the kids left in Perdido Beach. They're starving, and to say that they're not getting along with each other is putting it mildly. This second book does not disappoint, and while there's definitely some closure, there are a lot of questions left unanswered - like, WHAT is going on with Brittney?! I'm really looking forward to book 3.

Reviewed by Breia "The Brain" Brickey for TeensReadToo.com

Having not read the first book in the series, GONE, I was thoroughly intrigued about this book.

HUNGER takes place three months after the events of the previous story. The kids are running out of food, gaining powers, and a Darkness is calling to some of the members of The FAYZ.

I enjoyed this story so much that after I read it I promptly ordered the first book. I am eagerly awaiting its arrival so that I can see how this all started.

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Second in the series, this book takes up where the first left off and intensifies the crisis.

The book is riveting but may be too intense for younger audiences. Say anyone under 78...

I'm not sure what upset me most about this book. The fact that it was never content to have a single crisis ocurring at once, or the way that it calls the thinking reader to question what exactly is right and wrong and good and evil. There used to be a spooky saying that once committed to it, women were the fierces More...

As equally as thrilling as the first installment in the "Gone" series, but it leaves you with an even greater hook at the end. In this title, Grant still explores good versus evil, but now adds in more complicated dicotomies: captialism versus socialism; gifted versus nongifted; and evil versus eviler. Yes, I said it. Eviler.

Hunger surpasses it's predecessor. The non-stop action continues, and new chaos ensues. Gone are the days of chomping down on sugary treats, in fact, gone are the days of chomping down on anything. Food is scarce and fields are infested man eating worms. Hunger turns to desperation, desperation turns to violence. The FAYZ is no longer simply Coates vs. Perdidio Beach; it's now Freaks vs. Normals vs. Coates. As Sam struggles to keep it all together, the Darkness strengthens its snares. What follo More...

The story of the FAYZ has matured from the first book, making for more interesting reading. The kids have been left to survive without adults for three months, and it's no long fun: everyone's hungry. The story also demonstrates the loneliness of being a leader, especially a reluctant fifteen-year-old leader. Motivating the other kids to take an interest in their own survival and the survival of the group is one of the many challenges explored in this book. Michael Grant deftly unfolds the story More...

I'm officially addicted to this series. Is it perfect? No. But it's still amazing and entertaining and brutal as hell, which is exactly what you need in a dystopian.

I said it about Gone, but I'll say it again here: the great strength of this book is that Grant doesn't shy away from how bleak the conditions are. Kids die, and they die violently. Anti-freak factions develop. And you still get all that teenage drama - there's a girl with an ED, and a lesbian girl with an unrequited crush. Probably More...

Its been three months since everyone over the age of 14 disappeared and the situation in the FAYZ has only gotten worse. Much of the food is gone and whats left is both unappealing and in danger of running out shortly. When other sources of food are found it proves almost impossible to get the kids to help out. And tensions between those who have developed powers and those who have not are growing every day.

Once again, the author has created an action-packed story that grabs hold early on and th More...

Hunger was a great addition to gone, though not as exciting. It was good and an essential part to the series, but it could have been more exciting. I am really into this series though. It starts off with them trying to pick lettuce out of a worm-infested field, where a newly introduced character gets ripped apart by the worms. That's when they realized that food was going to be a big problem. For now they had electricity coming from the power plant, which meant running water. There was also the More...

I waited for the library to get this book for a while. I read the first book in the series a while back, and it was called Gone. Seeing that that one was so good, I had to read the next one. This story is a continuation of Gone, so everyone over the age of 14 is still unaccounted for. Sam and all his other brethren have to find ways to grow food for themselves, while battling giant worms that can eat through flesh. Over all, many more children die, and life has to go on in the Faze, or zone of e

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This is the second book in the "Gone" series. It is a story about what happened to the kids in the FAYZ after the "battle" against Caine. The main problem they all face is of course hunger. They also face some other problems. Caine relentlessly keeps trying to take over the FAYZ and be in control. The only problem is that after he faced The Darkness, he can't even seem to control himself. The Darkness has some control of not only Caine but also Lana too. As more and more problems pile up, Sam an More...

Minęły już trzy miesiące od kąt zaczął się ETAP, jego mieszkańcy nauczyli się jak ominąć "magiczną 15", ale sytuacja w mieście staje się coraz gorsza. Jedzenia jest coraz mniej, dzieci chodzą głodne. Sam, który został mianowany burmistrzem stara się nad wszystkim zapanować, ale nie daje już rady. Caine, który przez parę tygodni nie dawał znaków życia, postanowił przejąć elektrownie. Sam stara się do tego nie dopuścić, ale utrudnia mu to zwiększający się podział na "normalnych" i "odmieńców". Zde More...

This one was just so much more amazing than the first. I always thought that in a series, the first book is always the best and that's usually been true, but Hunger had me hooked throughout the entire thing unlike Gone which took me a while to like.

At the end of Gone , I saw that there were like five more books and so there I was wondering what the heck could the second book be about? Me being me, couldn't finish the situation without actually reading the second book. I got it from the librar More...

Hunger is a 590-page young adult dystopian novel by Michael Grant. It is the second book in the Gone series. This book picks up where the last one left off, 3 months after the FAYZ. The main characters, Sam and Caine, might not be fighting, but there are worse things to deal with right now. For starters, all the food has begun to run out and children are starting to starve. More kids are beginning to discover their powers and a rift is rapidly forming between the normal kids and the “mutant” kid More...

Hunger
Michael Grant
590 pages
Science fiction

In this sequel to Gone, kids are developing powers, food is running out, killings are occurring, and the Darkness is beckoning to many children. It seems as if the FAYZ (Fall-out Alley Youth Zone) is throwing everything it has at the children within its walls. Sam has been forced to take power that he does not want. Caine has a new plot that he is absolutely sure of yet he does no know why he is doing it. The Darkness is invading his mind. Lana is doing More...

Hunger, the second book in the Gone Series, continues the story of the kids in Perdido Beach who are left behind when everyone over the age of 15 disappears. This book opens with a most horrifying experience. I won’t go into detail because even though it occurs during the first few pages of the book, it is still a spoiler. But, let’s just say it was horrific enough for me to consider putting down the book and not continuing. I wondered if the event was necessary. But Michael Grant has no details More...

Hunger by Micheal Grant is an extremely good sequel. Normal most books I read have series that i don't bother reading because the 2nd book never lives up to the first. Hunger definitely defied what i thought. This book was just as good as the first. In this book, its the same characters as Gone. This time thought its been three months in the FAYZ, there hungry and still struggling to keep up with everything. Its written in many points of views. Also, the darkness is getting into peoples mind bec More...