Plague - Michael Grant

Title: Plague
Author: Michael Grant
Genre: Dystopian
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 576
Date read: May, 2011

It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. Gone.

They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach.

But enemies in the FAYZ don't just fade away, and in the quiet, deadly things are stirring, mutating, and finding their way free. The Darkness has found its way into the mind of its Nemesis at last and is controlling it through a haze of delirium and confusion. A highly contagious, fatal illness spreads at an alarming rate. Sinister, predatory insects terrorize Perdido Beach. And Sam, Astrid, Diana, and Caine are plagued by a growing doubt that they'll escape - or even survive - life in the FAYZ. With so much turmoil surrounding them, what desperate choices will they make when it comes to saving themselves and those they love?

"Gone" is a fascinating series, but I think I'm just about ready for it to finish. By that I don't mean that the individual books are getting boring, but that it's starting to seem like a never-ending story, and while I know that Michael Grant has only planned two more books in the series, I still worry that it'll be left with either an open or an unsatisfying ending.

The advantage of knowing there are still two more books to go is that I no longer expected any real resolution in "Plague", so I was able to enjoy it despite that. And it did have some very interesting developments - the return of Caine, the discovery of Toto and the fate of Little Pete. I'm getting really annoyed with Drake though. There's no depth to him, nor any character development. He's just evil for the sake of being evil, and that's not interesting to read about. Hopefully, between the two of them, Caine and Sam will be able to take care of him.