Mysterious, addicting, and thought inflicting, Hunger, the sequel to Gone, definitely earns a four star rating. I don't think it's good enough to be a five, just because I personally don't like how it's so scattered, and I'm not a fan of how the author writes in short sentences a lot of the time. On the other hand, I like how the book is extremely descriptive, and how you can feel every thought and emotion the characters think. A passage I really enjoyed was "Kind of like the first time, Duck thought. At the pool that day. Like that. Falling and the water rushing down with him. Only this water was more like sand. A billion tiny crystals all sucked down the drain that Duck had made in the earth. He could see nothing as he fell. The crystals filled his eyes and ears and mouth. He couldn't breathe, and this panicked him and he fell even faster, trying to outrun the monster that fell with him. No air. Mind swirling, crazy, not even afraid now, just...Memories flashed like a jerky video. That day when he fell off a pony at his fifth birthday party. That time he ate the whole pie...His mom. So pretty. Her face...Dad...The pool...He stopped falling. Something had stopped him at last. Too late, he thought. Can't fall through to China, Duck thought. Well, Duck thought, I guess I did want tp be a hero. And then Duck stopped thinking anything at all." This was my favorite part of the whole book, because I could really feel it. The author's word choice was limited mainly to every day FAYZ speech (not normal speech, because there were many FAYZ terms that no one knew before the FAYZ) I heard the words gaiaphage, moofs, zekes, nestor, Darkness, and the phrase "hungry in the dark" a lot. Those words were exceptional to the FAYZ. The actual English word choice was not very exceptional, though. My favorite characters were Lana, Albert, Diana, Orsay and Little Pete. I like them because they have a mind of their own. They may have a side, but they still are independent. Lana just wants to tackle the gaiaphage. Albert wants to create a currency for the FAYZ, Diana is loyal to Caine but is skeptical about what he does, Orsay simply reads dreams and has little knowledge of the sides, and Little Pete is in his own world. I think the theme of this book is finding who you are. Everyone is trying to find their place in the new FAYZ world. Other books by the author,Michael Grant, are Gone, which comes before Hunger, and Lies, which comes after Hunger. I most likely am going to continue my journey into the series with Lies.