Hunger - Michael Grant

Hunger

By Michael Grant

  • Release Date: 2009-05-26
  • Genre: Dystopian Fiction for Young Adults
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 392 Ratings

Description

Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 2 in the series that Stephen King calls a "driving, torrential narrative."

An uneasy calm has settled over Perdido Beach. But soon, fear explodes into desperation as food supplies dwindle and starvation sets in.

More and more kids are developing strange powers and, just as frighteningly, so are the animals in the FAYZ: talking coyotes, swimming bats and deadly worms with razor-sharp teeth are just the beginning.

For Sam Temple the strain of leadership is beginning to show and he's got more than just dwindling rations and in-fighting to worry about – Caine is back with the psychotic whiphand, Drake, by his side.

And deep in the ground, the biggest danger of all is getting hungry . . .

The GONE series is Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. In turns breathtaking, harrowing, and utterly terrifying. Its complex characters and moral dilemmas will delight fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The Maze Runner. This is dystopian fiction at its best.

Have you read all 6 titles in the New York Times bestselling saga?

Gone
Hunger
Lies
Plague
Fear
Light

"I am now free to leave the FAYZ, but my time there was well spent." —Stephen King

Reviews

  • Great story line

    5
    By Happy me !! :)
    I haven’t fully read the second book but I sure can say I love this series so much. I like to read survival books and this one is just perfect. I was struggling to find a good book and came across this in a library and read the first book and started the second and I am loving every bit!
  • Frustration

    4
    By Book Reviewer1234
    The book hunger includes a overmixing quality of frustration, negativity, and unrealism. Almost anything you can possibly wonder of going wrong in a town run by children goes wrong. Mix in some superhero themes and you have quite the story. Michael Grant has quite the habit of introducing a ton of characters in his story. To name a few, Orc, Howard, Orsay, Bug, Brittney, Mikey, Sam, Astrid, Duck, Hunter, Zil, Lisa, Mary, John, Cookie, Jack and about 25 more are characters that are featured in this story. All with their own little backgrounds to cover and remember. Which is fine to an extent but is tiring when superpowers are added and you are in a state of confusion when one starts drilling himself into the ground because you just forgot exactly what a character can do. The story has almost an overwhelming abundance of death and pain. Grant portrays 14 year olds as machine gun wielding maniacs that are capable of wiping out mass groups of people. All while submitting to a supernatural being that grants a certain individual with a piercing whip on his arm. If the children were older, I could understand. But the unrealistic maniacal traits they are given is fantasy fuel. The book is about 560 pages about everything getting worse with a climax of utter doom. The frustration of the characters continuing to be slaughtered and beaten down leads up to a sudden sad ending. But leads us to what is going to happen in the next 6 books. Why four stars though? I actually enjoyed this book. The frustration of the characters is satisfying and exciting. It’s a book where you will not want to stop reading and will say “Just one more chapter.”
  • Perfect!!!

    5
    By Lilith Malachi
    This is seriously the best series I've ever read in my life. You know how in the beginning of books it's really boring and it usually only gets good until the middle? Well I loved it from the start and Even before I started reading it. I am the number one fan of Michael Grant! Michael Grant, if you are reading this, keep on writing books! Continue the series! I want to keep on reading this for ever! Write a book about after the Fayz! From, Daisy
  • Love these books!

    5
    By Sky25907
    Buy it, you will not be disappointed!
  • Great book

    5
    By tank5633
    One of the best
  • This book is simply amazing

    5
    By ShdwX1
    I was happy, mad, sad, and excited while I was reading this book. It's just so interesting and it leaves you wanting more.
  • Hunger

    5
    By Gonegeek319
    this book is awesome got to read I can't stop reading it
  • Speechless...

    5
    By Him>Me
    Such an intense but that is very hard to put down... Must read!!!
  • One of My Favorites!!

    5
    By GooserIpod2
    I want to keep reading it so badly but I've had it for too long so the local library demanded it back!! :( I'm sooooo sad. I need to finish the book!! For those of you who love this series I recomend the Maximum Ride series. The best novel series known to man kind!!!!
  • Hunger

    5
    By e11m
    The second installment of Michael Grant's Gone series is filled with action packed battles and lots of dramatic emotional scenes. Hunger is a book you wont want to miss if you've read Gone.

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