“As original as The Hunger Games, set within the walls of a high school exactly like yours.” – Kami Garcia, New York Times best-selling co-author of the Beautiful Creatures novels
It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High—until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. And that was just the beginning.
A year later, McKinley has descended into chaos. All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. The school is under military quarantine. The teachers are gone. Violent gangs have formed based on high school social cliques. Without a gang, you’re as good as dead. And David has no gang. It’s just him and his little brother, Will, against the whole school.
In this frighteningly dark and captivating novel, Lex Thomas locks readers inside a school where kids don’t fight to be popular, they fight to stay alive.
I liked this book but let me say it wasn't the greatest book I have read that was like this. I have read Lord of the flies, The Gone Series, Monument 14, The Maze Runner. Basically a lot of book where it is just kids with out adults. I don't think this one is great as it could have been or maybe I am just getting bored of this kind of book who knows.
What makes this book kind of the same to some of the other books I have read is, the government knows are starts this. They try to help people but end up giving up. Blah blah blah.
Differences are that this book is spread out a lot. Its hard to judge the time but over a year almost 2 probably you don't really know.
I would like to mention what I can gather it is set in Colorado. (Now should I be worried that I Live here?)
Now this review:
"Take Michael Grant's Gone and Veronica Roth's Divergent, rattle them in a cage until they're ready to fight to the death, and you'll have something like this nightmarish debut...Thomas' whirlwind pace, painful details, simmering sexual content, and moments of truly shocking ultra-violence thrust this movie-ready high school thriller to the head of the class." -Booklist (starred review)
Let me start off by saying it is pretty much true. You have children trapped like in Gone and you also have groups sorta like the fractions in Divergent. Some of it is violent but for the most part nah. This book wasn't as great as either of those books to me sadly to say but it was like if you put both of them together.
Also one last thing. Didn't think it should be compared to The Hunger Games just didn't see it. Unless the Food and supplies that got dropped down every other week was like the Cornucopia in the Hunger Games and how people rushed after and killed people to get supplies and food. Other then that I just don't see the reference.
I will see how the next book turns out and let you know. :)
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