Title: Plague
Author: Michael Grant
Genre: Good vs. Evil, Fantasy, Supernatural,
Pages: 492
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Reviewed by: Library Media Connection (October 2011)
It's been eight months since the adults and older teens disappeared from Perdido Beach, and things are not going well. Food and clean water are running out, and power struggles between the "normal" kids and those with strange new powers are a common occurrence. There's a nasty, often fatal flu-like bug going around that even the teen healer can't stop. A group sets out to find a new water source; the lake is there, but so is a horde of mutant bugs that can lay its eggs inside a human host, leaving the hatchlings to eat their way out. The story is fast-paced and engaging, but the large cast of characters can be confusing. If you don't have the earlier books in this series, Gone (HarperCollins, 2008), Hunger (HarperCollins, 2009), and Lies (HarperCollins, 2010), get those first; this book will baffle readers unfamiliar with the story thus far. Fans of the earlier books will likely gobble this one up, though. Susan A.M. Poulter, Cataloguing Librarian, Nashville (Tennessee) Public Library. RECOMMENDED
No comments:
Post a Comment