Book Review - Hunger

Hunger by Michael Grant
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The Gone series began with the vanishing of all adults - everyone aged 15 or over - leaving behind only children, babies to be cared for, and a handful of pre-teens with sudden, unexpected responsibilities they aren't exactly ready for. When a fight broke out between the two factions in town - those from the private school on the hill, as it were, and the townies from public school - it nearly became a war. After the dust settled, the kids realized that while living on chips and candy had been fun, they'd let the fresh food rot on the shelves, and were now down to making meals out of a jar of gravy or relish.

They were hungry. And angry. And looking for someone to blame. Those who they had trusted responsibility to seemed to have disappointed them. And it was time for a rebellion.

Meanwhile, Caine had not recovered, as the ipso facto leader of the Coates Academy (private school) kids from his humiliating defeat. His time under the mine with "The Darkness" - possibly the cause of the curses these kids have had to bear - has infected him with a madness that seems unrelenting. His second, Drake, with his mutation of his whip hand, also granted by The Darkness - has only grown more evil and power hungry while Caine has been partially disabled by the invader in his mind. They hatch a plot which at first seems to be to torture the Townies (in reality, it is in service to their master, The Darkness) which Sam and Astrid will have to work hard to overcome.

This follow-up stays true to the original book; I wasn't bored at all. It's entertaining and a quick read, and again is well-written and makes you forget it's a YA book.

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