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Gone, book 5: In the mysteriously (to most) cut-off and domed part of San Francisco known as the FAYZ, after surviving all the adults being Gone, Hunger, a cacophony of Lies, and then an actual Plague the original Perdido Beach community has finally splintered! One has gone AWOL, one rules his own kingdom, one wants to be a FAYZ millionaire, and there's the first FAYZ baby on the way! Meanwhile our main hero is bored with the good life on the freshwater lake, but not for long, as tendrils of darkness (lower case d) start appearing on the barrier - he gets a bit worried, because other than fear itself, the only thing he truly fears, is the dark!

Five books in and this series is still kicking ass! How had I not heard much about it on Bookstagram? All those Young Adult and Fantasy accounts! Seriously this is the apex of young adult long-form story telling, a huge diverse, enigmatic and fully realised cast of kids with hardly a trope in sight! My queen, is the 13 year old pig-tailed red-headed girl Breanna, 'The Breeze', what a great character, surely she would steal the show if this was a Netflix TV series. Even the 'baddies' are thoroughly multi-dimensional. Give me more of this! As ever the most important point about this series, is that Michael Grant never lets me, or the cast themselves ever forget that they are children; oh, and he should give lessons on how to build climatic endings! 8 out of 12, Four Star read.

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