Gone is the first part in a series of novels. It is about a town that gets trapped in an impenetrable dome and everyone over the age of 14 disappears. The kids in this novel mostly belong to one of the two groups: the kids from Perdido beach and the ones from Coates academy. The kids from the beach are quite average kids but the kids from Coates academy are troubled kids with wealthy parents.
The novel quickly takes a dark turn when the Coates kids take over Perdido beach and begin to enforce harsh laws and even kill people. On top of that the animals begin to mutate and some kids also develop deadly powers.
The story follows multiple characters including one who is about to turn 15 in a few days and does not know what will happen to him afterwards. He’s also proven to be a hero on two occasions and is somewhat of a born leader, so people begin to turn to him to save them from the cruelty of the kids from Coates academy.
This book explores the more dark side of what kids would do if there were no adults.
Great recommendation.
This is one of those books that I picked up while browsing Chapters. When I looked up again, I'd spent almost 2 hours, and was only about a third into the book (it is satisfyingly long). I didn't buy it because I wanted to check if the library had it.
I should finish it. =)
yeah, it's a book that's hard to put down. it has quite a different style too.