Gone by Michale Grant

The book I read for the first semester was Gone by Michael Grant. All in all, it was a good book that had good character development and a fair amount of pages coming in at 576. The book has a simple plot which is one reason I really did not enjoy it since I like something with more suspense and not as many characters. To explain the premise of the story, It starts right off with the teacher disappearing at school as the main characters and the supporting characters are mostly all in one class. The main characters try to find their families since the whole school staff was gone. Then they realize that everyone over 15 is gone and no longer with them. As the story progress, they want to find a way home to their families. Some find out that they are within a dome and they soon see that they have no way out. Many kids start to find out about this and start to look for a hero and they see the main character, Sam, as a potential candidate. He was a hero since the beginning saving many kids, but he thinks that the kids are better off without him. Soon the kids start getting powers which was the point where the story kind of got boring for me. Sam manages to save the first kid from her powers and he also realizes he has powers, little by little it starts a spiral effect for supremacy for power with Sam and a group of other kids having the most powerful abilities. It soon starts to get to the point where they are going to start to kill and now it is up to Sam’s choice if he is willing to kill or to be the last hope. This book was great overall but it was not my type of book since I don’t do good with too many characters. The plot although simple was nice and had a good pace to it, but at points, I felt like it could use more or less explaining.