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The Burnouts

(Quarantine #3)

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Lord of the Flies in a 21st-century high school setting.Welcome to Quarantine 3: The Burnouts , where readers of The Maze Runner, Gone, and Divergent go when they're hungry for more dark, compelling survival stories.

When an explosion rocks David and Will's suburban high school one morning, a deadly virus is unleashed on the school. After a year of quarantine, with no adult
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Hardcover, 272 pages
Published July 22nd 2014 by EgmontUSA
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Jacob Alexander Yes there will be a fourth book but it will not be about Lucy's baby it will be about different hero from McKinley High the ax-wielding Loner, Gonzalo…moreYes there will be a fourth book but it will not be about Lucy's baby it will be about different hero from McKinley High the ax-wielding Loner, Gonzalo. The cover of 'Quarantine the Giant' should be coming out soon. It will be about the infected zone in Colorado and how teens have set up tribes to hide from the Murderous Adults.(less)
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Brie
WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!?!?!

No, really:



The Burnouts was so incredibly twisted and depraved - I was genuinely surprised because I really didn't think that things could get anymore unbelievably fucked up within (and outside) the halls of McKinley.

The final installment of the Quarantine trilogy was true to it's predecessors; it was an unrelenting break-neck pace of ick and action.

At the end I just sat there kind of dumb and raw and couldn't decide if I even liked it - a month later I'm still no
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Shannelle
Jun 10, 2014 rated it did not like it


I just want to rain all my displeasure down on this book so that it knows how disappointed I am. I'm just going to bring out all the spoilers because I am so annoyed at how much of waste this book has made of a genuinely creepy series.

I enjoyed the previous books, although they always ended up disturbing me. But that's what I like about it, and I really enjoyed the second book. But oh my goodness, The Burnouts. It's up there with Allegiant for the "Worst Way to End a Series" award.

With Will outs
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Becca
Jul 26, 2014 rated it did not like it
I nominate this book for the absolute worst way to end a series. The Burnouts make me want to give Allegiant a higher rating. I am so disappointed right now. The first book was like an accident on the side of the road for me, I just couldn't put it down even though horrible things were happening in the story. The Saints hooked me too, I read it the day it was released, this dark twisted story had me on the edge, as soon as I turned the last page I wanted the 3rd book to be finished! Now that I h ...more
J.D.
Sep 08, 2020 rated it really liked it

Summary

Will and David have made it out of McKinley High, free of infection and reunited once again.
Lucy, however, isn't so lucky. After being kicked out of her gang, she discovers a shocking secret that changes her perspective on staying alive.
Will she make it until graduation or become yet another causality?

Personal opinion

The Burnouts is the third and final book in Will, David and Lucy's quarantine story.
I really felt for Lucy in this one, but she is one tough chick who does what she has to
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heather - NightlyReading
Jun 30, 2014 rated it it was amazing
I LOVED the first 2 books in this series but they do not even compare to the third and final book! The Burnouts was explosive and a great ending to a horrific, yet intriguing apocalypse story.

David and Will are reunited at the beginning of this final chapter, which picks up right where the last book left us off. Will is thinking of Lucy and feeling guilty for leaving her behind but cannot bring himself to tell David about their relationship. He can't hurt his brother's feelings. Lucy is left wit
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Jaden Nelson
Dec 11, 2016 rated it really liked it
What a finish. Before you say anything, yes I know there is another book to this series, but it seems like more of an extra story, and not the one I was wanting from book 4 (btw, I have not read book 4 yet and I honestly probably won't). So again, what a "finish." This book was an emotional roller coaster from page 1 to page 272. I don't know how a book can have so many plot twists and not be a complete mess, but The Burnouts definitely accomplished that. Also... WTF WAS THAT ENDING! I STILL DON ...more
Lorrie
This was a good ending to a good series. I can't say it was my favorite, but it wrapped things up nicely. (view spoiler)

Edited to add: I didn't realize the series was continuing. I'm currently reading book 4.
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Kristin (Blood,Sweat and Books)
Minor spoilers below

Quarantine: The Burnouts is the third and final book in the Quarantine series. To say I was excited to see how it would all wrap up is an understatement. In fact, The Burnouts was one of my most anticipated books of the year. Yet, with great expectation great disappointment sometimes follows. It's not that I disliked The Burnouts it's just I expected so much more not only from the plot but the characters as well.

My first issue right off the bat with The Burnouts had to be
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Lectus
May 07, 2014 rated it it was ok
I pre-ordered this book because, you know, it's Quarantine... people.

First, let me say that I want my money back!!! Fuck. Why didn't I wait to check it out of the library?

I just loved the first book, loved it. The second one was a little too much but still good. But this one, oh this one. What the hell, L & T?

We still have the gore, the action, the fights... I became tired of Lucy. You just don't talk like that to somebody who has saved your life and taken care of you just because your boyfrien
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Evelyn
Jun 09, 2015 rated it really liked it
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Jamie
This book wraps up the series (technically there is another book but the story is separate from the main 3). Some questions are answered and others are not. I liked getting to know Bile (the boy who started it all) better and Lacey just loses it. Honestly any respect I had for her as a character pretty much dies in this book. Her choices, emotional decisions, etc are so ignorant and annoying! Will and David I both like although this one focuses more on David than Will it seems. Hillary has utter ...more
Trevor Carter
It's been over two years since a deadly virus outbreak infected McKinley High school and made the students become lethal to Adults and Children. Quarantined in the school with no rules or supervision, violence and depravity begin to lurk around every corner. Power becomes back up for grabs and High school senior, Hilary, takes control quickly making McKinley her personal kingdom, declaring herself as Queen.

On the outside the brothers are alive and have reunited. They have settle in on the outsid
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Wolf (Alpha)
Jan 05, 2018 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
I really liked this book. I hate how Will has to leave, but I also am happy for him. I feel bad for Lucy when she loses her baby. I hate how she turns to getting high and hanging with the burnouts. I like how David and Will both go back for her and how they help everyone escape. I hate how the government wipes out all the kids with a lie about a cure. I rate this a 5 star book.
Kiele
Jun 16, 2020 rated it liked it
This book isn't four stars, but it is also better than 3. I would give it a three and a half if I could. There were lots of really dark scenes, but they didn't really get to me. It was not as bad as what I had heard from friends. ...more
Laura
Jun 04, 2018 rated it did not like it
Based on it's predecessors, I was under the impression that being the final book in the trilogy this would be jammed packed full of action, tragedy and fear. But what I got was toilet paper in a book. Literally nothing happened in this book at all. Each book title is based on a new group we encounter- the Burnouts? Do you mean KYLE? The guy who has a creepy crush on our new MC Lucy? Yeah no thank you.
Again, all of two things happened in this book really. The first 80% of the novel is fleshed ou
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F.C. Schaefer
May 22, 2020 rated it really liked it
Picking up and reading QUARANTINE: THE BURNOUTS, the third book in the series, is a different experience now than it would have been a few months ago. A novel where a deadly virus and a quarantine figure prominently in the plot resonates strongly in the middle of real life global pandemic where such terms are mentioned on every news broadcast 24 hours a day, not to mention the ways it has impacted the daily life of everyone. For me, it made the plight of the characters real in a way that was abs ...more
Quan
May 17, 2019 rated it it was amazing
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Sandy
Sep 02, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: netgalley, ya, dystopia
This is one series I don’t want to finish. I will truly miss everything about this series, but there are some questions I needed answers to so I reluctantly read the book yesterday. Okay, so maybe I devoured it. The author hopes that you have read the first two books in the series as we are off and running with the parents living on a farm close to the school so they can be near their children. Oh, if they could only see their children inside McKinley. I don’t think their parents could handle it ...more
Logan Dicken
Oct 02, 2015 rated it liked it
The reason I give this book three stars is purely because of the ending. The rest of book was fine to me, a little darker than the other two, but the ending, oh the ending, all i can say is that I am more mad right now than I ever have been at the ending of anything, SPOILERS are coming. If i were to look of two-faced in a dictionary it would say "Lucy from the Quarantine series", She completely shut done Will in the first book and went with David but when David left and she joined the Sluts I t ...more
Cora
May 09, 2020 rated it liked it
Shelves: read-in-2020
I LOVE the Quarantine series. The first book was the best, for sure. The Burnouts seemed to have a different tone than the rest of the series, a bit darker. I sorta liked it but I felt like it was anticlimactic and some events/deaths that occurred were unnecessary and not well told.

Content Warning (MINOR Spoiler Alert): There was a scene in this book that was a bit disturbing, involving a miscarriage. I felt like it was overly descriptive and a bit darker than the rest of the books had prepared
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star_fire13
Well. That was a weird ending.

I totally don't buy that Lucy was not only pregnant with twins, but managed to miscarry only one and keep the other. She fell down a flight of steps, was stressed, fighting for survival, more or less on the brink of starvation... I know the pregnant body is resilient and can survive miraculous things, but come on! She had to have been living under those grueling conditions for the first 5 months of her pregnancy!

Plus she had the virus! She was infected when she was
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Amy
Apr 03, 2014 rated it it was ok
Very disappointed in the last book of the series. The first two books were so action packed, disturbing in the car-crash-I-can't-look-away type and had me rooting for my favorites to get out alive. No real character development, learned nothing of the burnouts and very little of Hilary ruling the school. The conclusion could have been told in three chapters and would have made a lot more sense to have included with book two and call the series a wrap. Reminded me of Monument 14, where the first ...more
Suzanne
Jun 19, 2014 rated it it was ok
Shelves: ya-kid-lit, netgalley
This reminded me strongly of the Monument 14 series - the teens trapped inside a structure, the presence of untrustworthy adults outside, the dangers of the infection/contagion - and then add in a Hunger Games element with the various gangs fighting for territory and power inside the school.

I think that I am "burnt out" on YA books about teens surviving some kind of plague or biological weapon. Since I hadn't read the first two books in this series, I was not emotionally invested in the characte
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Stephanie
Disappointing. I was so excited for this book, and now I just don't know what to think. The motivation to keep turning pages to find out what happens next is still there, but now that it's over, I feel deflated. This was very much the Lucy, Will, and David show. None of them changed or grew during this book. We didn't get to see any of the interaction between the gangs, and Hillary, that was just poorly done. What an ignominious way for the authors to end such a villainous character. The last ch ...more
Melissapalmer404
Dec 06, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Book #3 Read in 2015
Quarantine #3: The Burnouts (YA)

This is the third and final book in a dystopian young adult series, a sort of Lord of the Flies set in a high school. Children are infected and adults are at risk to be around them without gas masks. Therefore, the parents lock the children in their high school and are free for all begins with violence and horror. In this book, Will has "graduated" and is on the outside and realizes that his brother is still alive. When he learns that his girlf
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Stacee
This was really disappointing. After the awesome ending from book 2, I was so eager to see what happened next. Granted, it was not what I was expecting, but that's not a good thing.

A lot of it seemed to be a rehashing of material from the previous books. The new direction seemed forced and the crazy character development was used just to force the plot along.

The ending chapters were shocking; however, it seemed like it was just out of convenience rather than actually dealing with the problems
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Sharon Mariampillai
This was an interesting read. It has to be my second favourite book of the series. I thought the action and the story were great. I did find some parts a bit annoying because there was not much of the truth being told in some moments. I thought Hilary finally got what she deserved. Also, I thought that book was really good. I am happy for David and Lucy. However, I am sad for what happened to Will. There were some scenes where I was very emotional. The ending was great. Also, I cannot wait for w ...more
Lynn Werckenthien
Sep 15, 2014 rated it really liked it
I have read a lot of young adult trilogies lately, and to its credit, this one kept me engrossed until the very end. I don't want to spoil it for anyone, but I will say that all of the main characters end up back in the school for one final time. Like the first two, there is a lot of violence and mature content--the violence done by the kids to one another can be very disturbing. Nonetheless, I was overall pleased with the ending, and the final line of the book has stuck with me for a couple day ...more
Adele Broadbent
Sep 23, 2016 rated it really liked it
Shelves: older-teens-14
Will is shocked at who he finds outside of the gang-torn, violence riddled, McKinley High. Lucy is left behind, alone and without a gang to protect her. Will does the unthinkable and is going back in....

This is the third in this series and just like my favourite TV series Walking Dead, the key character's Will, David and Lucy's struggles are what you focus on - with the constant action and side-stories of other characters still packing punch after punch as you read.

A love triangle, a tale of sur
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Caitlin
Oct 27, 2013 marked it as to-read
Shelves: to-review
Loved the first two books. Hope this one is just as good if not better.

looking forward to reading.
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