Gone by Michael Grant

     I was having a lot of trouble deciding what book I should read for my last book. Finally I decided to read Gone by Michael Grant. I got the sample for my Nook a long time ago but I forget why I never downloaded the full version. So, I thought it would be a good book to read. I really liked how it had many things going on and didn't focus on just one thing, like how instead of just one problem it had Caine trying to take over, how to get through the barrier, what caused the FAYZ, how will they get food when they run out, and what is the darkness? Some of these were similar but it still kept me interested in the story and what will happen. Overall, this book is not my favorite, but I still liked it and it was worth reading. 

     One thing I didn't really like or understand about the book was why everybody over fifteen disappeared. I think it would have made a lot more sense and be easier to write a story about if the author had made everyone over eighteen disappear. First of all, then it wouldn't just be a random age and it would actually really be all the adults disappearing. Maybe there's a better reason for it later in the series, but I still think eighteen would have worked better. Also, some of the things that the characters did in the story I found very hard to imagine a fourteen-year-old doing, no matter how crazy the kid was or even if they had super powers. My sister is fifteen, and I can't see her doing half of the things that happened in the book. I can imagine everybody going to the main part of town and trying to decide what to do and trying to find all of the food and search the houses, but I can't imagine them trying to take over. I agree that some kids would step up and be in charge, but I don't think they would really try to be the boss. I can see people being leaders, but not bossing people around like Caine was trying to do. There were many times while I was reading that I forgot the characters were fourteen, which I didn't really like. I think that if the author was going to make the characters fourteen and under, he should have made it obvious. I really didn't see the point of fifteen and not eighteen. I'm sure there are a lot of people who like how it was fifteen and over, but for some reason it just didn't work for me. 

     Whenever I read books about people with super powers (Which isn't many, since I usually go for fiction books), I always try to decide which power I would like to have. I wish I could say that Sam's fire/light power is my favorite since he is the main character/good guy, but I can't. I guess it might be the most useful as a weapon in a world like the FAYZ, but with the way we live in real life, I would much rather have Caine's telekinetic power. I think it would be really cool and fun to move things with your mind, and it would really freak people out. Then I started to think that if everybody had telekinetic powers, they would probably all get overweight, like in the movie Wall-E when people just rode around in chairs while machines did most of their work for them. Still, I think it would be fun to be able to move things without being near them. Reading about the powers in books like this one is probably my favorite part. 

     Thinking about this makes me realize I probably should give more books a chance. If it's not fiction, I usually figure I wouldn't like it. Still, the Harry Potter books are my favorite books ever, and they are definitely not fiction. I'm also a Twilight fan (which isn't fiction), which made me read The Host since it was also by Stephanie Meyer which is science fiction, which I absolutely thought I hated, but I really enjoyed. I made my family watch the movie to The Host and my mom even commented that she enjoyed when she doesn't like science fiction either. So, even though I had a problem with Gone with the whole age thing, I kind of appreciate the fact that it made me realize I should really give more books a chance. Anyways, I still have my complaint about the age part of this book, but I'm still glad I read it and I'll probably finish the series. And I'm glad I decided to do this book for my blog because it was when I was typing this that I thought I really should give more books a chance. Basically, I think this book would have been perfect to me if it had been eighteen and older that disappeared, even though I still enjoyed reading it.