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    Gone
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    Gone
    Audiobook17 hours

    Gone

    Written by Michael Grant

    Narrated by Kyle McCarley

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    In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young. There are teens, but not one single adult. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened. Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents-unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers-that grow stronger by the day. It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: on your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else . . .

    Michael Grant's Gone has been praised for its compelling storytelling, multidimensional characters, and multiple points of view.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 25, 2016
    ISBN9781515982418
    Author

    Michael Grant

    Michael Grant, author of the Gone series, the Messenger of Fear series, the Magnificent Twelve series, and the Front Lines trilogy, has spent much of his life on the move. Raised in a military family, he attended ten schools in five states, as well as three schools in France. Even as an adult he kept moving, and in fact he became a writer in part because it was one of the few jobs that wouldn’t tie him down. His fondest dream is to spend a year circumnavigating the globe and visiting every continent. Yes, even Antarctica. He lives in California with his wife, Katherine Applegate, with whom he cowrote the wildly popular Animorphs series. You can visit him online at www.themichaelgrant.com and follow him on Twitter @MichaelGrantBks.

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    • 1/5
      I read the 1st book when it 1st came out and was excites to start the audio books to start over and finish the series. But holy moly the narrator is CRAP!!!! HE is sooooo hard to listen to. And he does most the books. I only have time for books on my commute so sitting to read the books just isn't gonna happen as a busy working momma. So sad those chose such a crappy narrator.
    • 1/5
      Great story- read it long ago and really liked the premise.

      This has got to be THE most annoying narrator I have EVER listened to though- every time he says “SAID” it is so over emphasized it’s like listening to 2 children saying “Sam SAID…. Well, YOU SAID… well Astrid SAID”.
      Maybe this is the narrators attempt at portraying the age of the characters but it it is extremely misplaced and I felt like I was listening to a constant bickering argument of he SAID , she SAID blah,blah, blah. Also every time the word “said” is used the narrators voices gets very LOUD LIKE HE IS YELLING “SAID” when the rest of the sentence is normal volume.

      *The small children’s voices are AWFUL. (See how when reading that sentence it comes off as harsh because of the emphasis on AWFUL— that is on purpose so you have an idea what the book sounds like).*The middle schoolers voices are normal and well done. The bullies voices… I don’t even know.

      This literally gave me anxiety and took me back to the accusatory tone teachers use when you were in trouble in school- except that is not the point of the book or the way it is written AT ALL. (Again I am using all caps on purpose as an example built for true emphasis also) Seriously- freaked out by that - there should be a trigger warning not for the content but for the way it is read by this narrator. Again. Excellent story (I have read it), good normal middle school voices, horrible everything else. It’s a shame they took such a good series and started it out with this narrator.
    • 1/5
      I love this series and I decided to listen to it to as a revisit. The audio version is awful. I made it about 15 minutes in and if I had to hear the reader say said one more time I was going to throw my phone out of the window.
    • 1/5
      Bad writing, "Quinn said". Majority of what you read is a name of someone and what they said.
    • 5/5
      I think the story is unique in the way that we get so many POVs and motivations. It’s a long book, and the characters ARE young, which is kind of the point. I think I appreciate the challenges they are facing more now that I’m older (I originally read the first 3(?) As they were released and now I’m listening to them to catch back up because I do want to finish the series. Very dystopian, great novel for preteens and teens!
    • 1/5
      Not available to listen. When will it be available. Why have you listed it
    • 4/5
      Great book, terrible audiobook. The last few words of every chapter are clipped.
    • 4/5
      ignore the narrator at first, he improves greatly at the end
    • 4/5
      I really liked this one. I'll be continuing the series. It's about a bunch of kids, everyone is under age 14 being the only ones left in their reality. So all the grownups are gone and weird things are happening. Some of the kids have powers. There's an evil darkness. The animals are evolving. They have to figure out normal survival things like finding food and taking care of the babies. They also have the mutations to deal with. Everything is more deadly. I would say this is YA dystopian and a bit horror-ish.
    • 2/5
      Cruel in many places and a little too young adult for me to really enjoy.
    • 2/5
      Maybe even 1.5*...Perhaps I wouldn't have been so disappointed in this young-adult novel if I hadn't been expecting it to be a sci fi story. It definitely is NOT science fiction! There is no basis in science at all so I guess it could be called fantasy - though paranormal describes it better. Not content with the initial fantastic improbable event - the disappearance of all people 15 or older (don't worry - that isn't a spoiler, it happens at the beginning of the first chapter) {I have previously ranted about how I feel about this sort of unscientific age-related "sci fi" in another book review. Suffice it to say that how biologically different do you think a person is at 14 years 354 days from the way he/she is at exactly 15 years?} - the author brings in paranormal abilities, rapid & unusual animal mutations & some unknown but evil force.The book is very dark and violent; it is not what I would want a 10-15 year-old to be reading if I was a parent. The basic message is similar to "Lord of the Flies" but not as well done in my opinion.The story is quite thrilling, enough so that it is fairly easy to overlook all the improbable plot devices while reading (or listening in my case) to it, so I didn't feel the book deserved 1*. If it had an ending with more resolution, I would have been happy with a solid 2* but instead the book ends with no major issues resolved, clearly intending there to be a sequel or series to follow, and leaving this reader unsatisfied.
    • 2/5
      Obviously, I didn't like the book, so if you did, you probably shouldn't read this.

      I actually did something I never usually do, and bought the first and the second book at the same time, as the idee sounded interesting. I figured that at the very least they would be quick and entertaining.

      They took me four years to finish.

      For me, it was a lot of little things combined. I couldn't get into the book at all. The pacing was ridiculous, with just action after action with no break at all. And nothing was ever explained. I get that there's six books in the series, but after two books there should be some sort of plot development.

      The fact that nothing was explained took away any interest I had in story. I don't feel like the plot got away from Mr. Grant, I feel like he never had it in the first place. By the end there was just gore for gore's sake, with kids being eaten by cabbage monsters(Second book? I can't remember) and little kids dying for no reason. These deaths added nothing to the emotional scope of the story, with the main characters not even caring. It was just a lazy way of adding shock to a book.

      I found the main characters, particularly Sam and Astrid to be really dull. I couldn't connect to Sam at all. It was like he was just there to take up the stoic white chosen hero role, and nothing more. And Astrid. She seemed like an interesting, complicated character in the beginning, but she quickly devolved into the same passive cardboard cutout as Sam. This might change in later books, but I don't care to find out.

      If Sam and Astrid had been replaced with, say, Mary, or Lana, or literally anyone other than Sam and Astrid, the story might have been a lot easier to connect to, but no. These minor characters actually had thoughts and flaws and wanted things and were much more human than our dynamic duo.

      The writing style killed me. The sentences were short and simple, which isn't necessarily bad, but I swear to god every sentence was passive, which really took away from the more dramatic moments.

      The only way I can see the rest of the books getting better is if Grant: - stops dragging out everything to get a quick buck (Seriously, 560 pages of nothing.
      - gives some actual answers.
      - has the horror and violence add something to the plot or character development.
      - has Sam and Astrid actually develop the emotional depth that this story so desperately needs.
    • 3/5
      Precisely what you would expect--- good for the afternoon nap. any reference to "Lord of the Flies" is a long way off the mark- reads like a treatment for a movie!
    • 3/5
      This is the first novel in a series of six post-apocalyptic novels, set in a town in southern California where, one day in November, every adult and older child of 15 or over suddenly disappears literally into thin air, and the town is surrounded by an impenetrable barrier. This novel starts well, with a good sense of the mixed emotions of initial exhilaration, then paralysis, perplexity, worry and fear that such an event would naturally give rise to. Some of the children have special powers including firing lasers from their hands, controlling gravity, or teleportation. The novel moves from focusing mainly on the post-apocalyptic situation to focusing on the struggle between factions of children with various powers, in particular that of the hero Sam and his girlfriend Astrid, against Caine Soren's faction, particularly as the moment of Sam's and Caine's fifteenth birthdays approach, when they are due to disappear. This is a good page turner of a novel, though I found it a little repetitive at times, and I'm not sure if I'll bother with the sequels.
    • 5/5
      Hands down the best YA dystopian/apocalypse/sci-fi series I've ever read.
    • 5/5
      Great concept for a story! I am certainly intrigued enough to read the next one.
      Apart from the sleepless night it gave me while I stressed out about what my kids would do in a similar situation, I really had fun reading this. And yes, it sparked a really interesting middle-of-the-shopping centre conversation with my 14 year old daughter who hasn't read it but had some eye-opening ideas about what her priorities would be if all the adults suddenly disappeared.
    • 5/5
      Yowzaah!!! Read this book when it first came out and then again this year as I came across some of the series books on sale and well ofcourse I snagged them. Soooo started from book 1 again. Time has had no effect on my enjoyment of what I can easily say is one of my all time favorite series.I actually can remember as a kid, usually when I was suffering through a grounding period, that it would just be awesome if adults had there own little world and we (kids) had our ours. No RULES . Sign me up. I was always somewhat of a rebel. Had this book been around at that time...well. My worry rock would have been rubbed smooth from all the panic attacks over my wishes.
    • 4/5
      There were many times while reading that I thought this was the perfect modern equivalent of "Lord of the Flies". Children left to care for themselves, dividing into factions, filling the power vacuum left by the absence of adults. The supernatural powers made things more intense and gave the story a bit of a "Heros" feel.
    • 3/5
      Poof! In the town of Perdido Beach, one morning everyone over the age of fifteen disappears. In the blink of an eye as it were. Think 'Lord of the Flies'. But with mutants, bullies, talking animals and a mysterious barrier.'Gone' is the first in a series of six (and counting???).
    • 4/5
      Mir hat das Buch gut gefallen. Insgesamt jedenfalls. Ausser, das es mit 512 Seiten etwas schwer war, lies es sich schnell und gut lesen. Der Schreibstil ist einfach, der Plot nachvollziehbar Und spannend. Dadurch, dass in der Stadt ein Internat für gestörte Jugendliche war ist der Psychopathenanteil gut gegeben und die Superkräfte halten das ganze etwas frisch, da man nicht genau weiß, wer als nächstes mit einer aufwartet, was dann passiert, und vor allem, was für eine derjenige hat.

      Was mir nicht so gut gefallen hat: Die Spitznamen. Schulbus-Sam? Computer-Jack? Ernsthaft? Ich habe so das leichte Gefühl, dass Kinder sich bessere Namen ausdenken würden. Das hatte so ein ganz leichtes TKKG-Feeling. Und nicht im positivem Sinne. Jedes mal, wenn jemand einen Spitznamen benutzt hat war das störend und hat mich aus der Geschichte gerissen.

      Das andere, was mir nicht gefallen hat: Der Autor kann seine Figuren nicht leiden sehen. Oh, es wird gestorben. Aber die Radiesschen werden nur von Figuren von unten betrachtet, die man noch nie gesehen hat, den Namen nicht mal kennt, und die man auch nicht vermissen wird. Die Hauptcharaktere tragen nicht mal eine Narbe davon. Was irgendwie mies ist, wenn man gerade über einen Krieg liest mit No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.

      Die Charaktere sind reizvoll. Sam, der geborene Anführer, der eigentlich gar keiner sein will. Er hat mich an Jack von Lost erinnert. Eigentlich will er nicht, aber… er kanns ja auch nicht mit ansehen und die anderen würden ihm überall hin folgen.

      Caine, der immer einen Plan hat. Wie Artemis Fowl, aber in bösartig. Und charismatisch. (Nichts gegen Artemis, aber der hat Geselligkeit nicht gerade mit dem Löffel gefressen. Wenn Butler nicht ständig hinter ihm stehen würde hätte er sicherlich schon seeehr oft Prügel bezogen).

      Quinn, der sich als einziger vollkommen vernünftig verhält, nämlich verängstigt und verstört.

      Und natürlich alle anderen. Am Schluss kommen noch viele neue Gesichter dazu. Ich denke, die werden dann in den fünf nächsten Büchern besser beleuchtet. Was mich jetzt schon wieder wurmt. So ganz leicht. Sechs Bände mit jeweils mindestens 500 Seiten bis ich weiß, wie die Geschichte zu Ende geht. Das ist ganz schön viel. Ich dachte als ich das Buch gelesen habe dass es nur drei sind, was ich schon sehr nervig fand. Aber sechs? Nuja. Das sind besser sechs sehr gute Bücher, oder ich werde nicht bis zum Ende lesen.

      Aber was solls. Es ist alles nur eine FAYZ. Man darf ja nicht den Humor verlieren.
    • 4/5
      was a interesting book
    • 4/5
      Equal parts fascinating and infuriating. It's a vast riddle enveloped in the trauma of the apocalypse. Grant has created a vast cast of characters to drive his plot, but not so many that they lack fleshing out. The infuriating part was the subplot of the coyotes. They feel exceptionally out of place in this fabricated world. All the humans have a vast array of powers - yet the coyotes evolved (more or less) uniformly. It felt as though Grant had two story ideas that were "close enough" that he threw them together and said "good enough."
    • 1/5
      Good idea, but I didn't like the writing. There were too many characters, and I didn't feel like any of them were very well developed. The whole abandoned babies thing really bothered me, too. I just did not like this book at all.
    • 4/5
      READ IN DUTCH

      I'd heard a lot about this series, and it made me very curious. The blurb sounded fascinating. Leaving only kids in a city, it's a recipe for a good Dystopian novel (and a lot of trouble).



      As soon as the FAYZ is created - the reasons why are mysterious - social movements start, and some people (although everyone over 15 has magically disappeared) start immediate to make sure they end up on top of it.

      Besides, there is a complete lack of responsibility, definitely at the beginning. They forget something very important when they are feasting in the McDonald.


      The fact that there are a lot of very young children now being not cared for and not fed. So, all this kids end up dead


      For me, that was one of the cruellest parts of the book. Because even when they think about it eventually (after several days and it is already too late) they don't really feel responsible about it. When, strictly speaking, they were. And this is way before all the killings and everyone's starts dropping like flies.



      This isn't a nice and calm read, this book will punch you in the face. Multiple times. It doesn't pretend that people will do good things or even what's best. It shows, like many other Dystopian novels, what happens to society as a certain part of it changes. And that's already before all the freak stuff happens. In this book, it doesn't play such an important part, but it will become more and more a fantasy/sci-fi over the next books.



      Gone wasn't my favourite part in this series, it took some time for me to get into the story, but once I was, it didn't let me go and I couldn't put it down any more. I'm aware that from the description it really sounds like Stephen King's Under The Dome, but I like this series better.
    • 5/5
      I found myself instantly drawn into this book and this world. In a genre where things could easily get predictable, I'm pleased to continue seeing new spins, new tragedies, new enemies, and constant surprises. This was a longer book than most YA, but it didn't seem long since it was so hard to put down that it took very little time to read! There is a definite open ended ending, but it's not one of those cliffhangers that leave you angry or too desperate for the next book. Still, I'm glad my library had book 2 so I can start soon.
    • 3/5
      This was an enjoyable read about friendship and survival, despite the fact that some parts were too far fetched for my liking (I hate talking animals!!). However, it was quite a page turner with plenty of action which kept the reader involved to the end and am looking forward to reading the sequel.
    • 4/5
      Great plot. Well written. Everybody over the age of 15 disappears and from newborns to 14 have to mend for themselves. As usual there are bullies, wild animals and some supernatural power. At times, it was frustrating but you have to put your mind set that these are kids and they are trying to survive. I did enjoy reading this book.
    • 5/5
      So good! Can't wait to read the rest of the series!
    • 3/5
      This book took me forever to read... =
      So, a friend of mine told me this was really really good and he really liked it, and, usually, i totally trust his judgment. But 3 weeks into this book and still unfinished? Well.... i was having doubts...
      So, i usually adore post-apocalypse/apocalyptic books, something about this one fell flat.
      I think it was the age range... you know, middle school kids are not that mature. It's a fact of life. Ok that's generalizing, let me rephrase, there aren't that many mature 14 year-olds in one place...
      ...Yeah i know... they're mutants, they mature faster... well still...
      I liked the characters though! I did! I liked Astrid and Edilio =) I didn't like that he made you like the bad guys too.... cause i didn't really want to like them... but ones name was Panda!!! What kind of heartless person names a bad guy Panda!!!?!?!?!
      Lol, anyway... the story was good, inventive, original (ohmigosh i love using those words!!!) i mean, it was a good story.
      One day everyone over the age of 15 just disappearing and the kids (some of whom have mutant-like powers) have to fend for themselves against a rivaling school and insane antagonist (who's.... 14...)?? Lord of the Flies anyone?? That's really what i was getting reminded of a lot. Lord of the Flies. Only.. you know... less weird...
      I think besides the age range, the only other real issue i had was the sometimes incredibly awkward dialogue. Sometimes it was really good! Others... not so much... because a lot of times the dialogue didn't stay true to the age of the kids. I mean, they're kids, they're gonna use contractions and slang. There were too many instances where someone would say something like;
      "But we are all out of food."
      um... i don't know about you... but most 14-year olds i know would say we're.
      So, pros and cons, the usual stuff.
      I will read the next one, because this wasn't a bad book. Just had some things i had problems with. Actually i'm rather curious as to what happens in the next book ;)
    • 4/5
      Could barely put this down. It moved swiftly and intelligently toward a plausible (plausible for the basic premise of everyone over 14 disappearing and all those left with special powers) ending