Light

I was walking through the local supermarket book aisle and noticed a book with a black cover with bright green writing. I knew that I was getting a kindle for christmas so I made a mental note to give Gone a go when I had it. Its been just over a week since Christmas day and I have now read all 6 books. The need to continue reading these books for me can only be compared to the Harry Potter series. It has been a long time since I could say I felt this way about a book series and I adored all of the books in equal measure. I have never been so happy to have been dragged into the book aisle of a supermarket before. If you haven't read them, then do. Much like Harry Potter, Twilight and The Hunger Games, they say that these books are for children but really they are for all ages. You will fall in love with the characters (my personal favourites were Edilio and Lana) and you will laugh, cry, cheer for them, get angry with them and mourn them. The Fayz will draw you in, the mystery that surrounds the whole situation will leave you wanting more. If you think you can handle a world where everyone is under 15, there is anarchy, murder, cannabalism, lust, love, courage and much much more. You will see children grow into 'adults' and characters change for the better, and the worse. It is a true look into human survival. I personally think if it was adults it would have got a whole lot messier. Anyway, firstly I would like to thank Michael Grant for an ending worthy of the whole series, and secondly I will say to start reading Gone.. now. Its not just a FAYZ.

Light is the sixth book in the Gone Series. n Light the barrier has become transparent and the outside world peer into the strange world of the FAYZ (Fallout Alley Youth Zone). A world without adults and where some kids have powers. The darkness has taken a body, the child of Caine & Diana, calling herself Gaia. Gaia is bent on bringing death and destruction; for no other reason than the fact that she’s evil. It’s the EndGame and what an awesome one it is. Some characters will live and others will die. The characters are prey being hunted by Gaia, an enemy who aims to hunt them to extinction. Light is anything but predictable and so much happens. The plot is as we’ve come to expect from Grant, fast-paced. The ending includes the aftermath, what happens once the barrier comes down. I’m not ashamed to say that some of the final scenes brought a tear to my eye including: Sam & Quinn getting their friendship back to how it was, the ending for the two gay characters – Edilio & Roger, what happened to Brianna (Breeze) & Dahra and Orc’s redemption. Overall Light is the best in the Gone Series, closely followed by Lies. The Gone Series is worth reading from start to finish. Here are the books in order: Gone, Hunger, Lies, Plague, Fear and Light.

Never written a review of a book before but the world must know how absolutely brilliant this series is. There's been so many tv and book series where the last instalment is disappointing, never giving you all the answers you've been looking for. This book give you all that and more. If you haven't read the series buy them now! Start with Gone and work your way through to Light. I guarantee you that you will love them. By the way, I'm a little older than the target audience (20's) and pretty well read, but that doesn't change the fact that these books are one of the best series I've ever read. And if any Hollywood people by some miracle are reading this...this book series are films waiting to happen. Heroes, villains, superpowers, action, adventure, tragedy, an awesome ending - if that isn't a film I don't know what is.

This is AMAZING! I am a great fan of this series, and this book is no exception to Micheal Grant’s writing charm. He uses the perfect elements to make each sentence hit you in the most excellent way. I can’t explain how he manages to develop the characters so much so that you feel that they are real and living, even if they have the most unreal qualities, so much so that I was sad the entire day when some of the characters were killed. The part of it that is fighting, does not give you that bored sense of “when does this bit finish” but rather hope for the side that you wish to win. Some characters are so amazingly developed, that you manage to love and hate them at the same time. ***SPOILER ALERT*** Bad points; (sorry, but I’m forcing myself to do this.) - too many good people die, come on: Orc, Brianna aka Breeze, Computer Jack, Caine, Dahra etc. I think at a certain point, death becomes OVERKILL! NOTHING ELSE!!! TOTALLY IN LOVE! 😭😭😭

"Light" by Michael Grant is an absolute rollercoaster of a conclusion to the Gone series! I mean, seriously, talk about a wild ride. The FAYZ has never been more intense, and the characters? Wow, they go through some serious stuff. It's like the author took everything we loved about the series and turned it up to eleven. The action is non-stop, and just when you think you know what's going to happen, Grant throws in a twist that leaves you gasping. Plus, those mutant powers are so cool – I found myself daydreaming about what it would be like to have superpowers while sitting in boring math class. But it's not just about the action and powers; the emotions in this book hit me right in the feels. The characters are dealing with so much, and you can't help but connect with them on a personal level. The friendships, the romances, the struggles – it all feels so real. Even as a 13-year-old, I could relate to the characters and their challenges. "Light" is like the ultimate finale, tying up loose ends and giving us closure, but not without a few surprises along the way. It's the kind of book that keeps you up way past your bedtime because you just have to know what happens next. Totally recommend it to anyone who loves a mix of action, superpowers, and emotional rollercoasters!

I am any other average fangirl who loves reading books like this. The whole dystopian future type of thing is exactly my style. I started reading the GONE series while I was on holiday and it's taken me a year to read the series (I like to take my time). When I first got LIGHT I was afraid to touch it. Sad, I know. I just knew it held so much power which would ruin my life. GONE is different from any other series in lots of special ways. By the time you finish the first book you feel like the characters are you best friends in the world. I knew that some of my friends where about to die and that's why LIGHT ruined my life. *ATTENTION SPOILERS* Its a simply ASDFGHJKLAMAZINGILOVEITSOOOOOOOMUCH book. I couldn't put it down and read it in three days. When I finally finished I was rocked by the death of Brianna. Breeze was my favourite character and some what of a best friend, like someone who I could really relate to. To put it simply, after her death I cried whenever someone said something Brianna related like "I love your new shoes."-tears. I was also shaken by Caine's death as I really hadn't expected it to come. Caine's story fascinates me and he has such a strong character development which comes from Cocky Kid to Evil Leader to King of the FAYZ to Wise Man in the end. I really felt for all the characters , especially these two and I will probably never get over the series. Ever. And I mean it. *NO MORE SPOILERS* I REALLY HIGHLY ABSOLOUTELY 100% recommend LIGHT as the perfect ending to an AMAZING experience. *SPOILER* I also cried when it said "You are now free to leave the FAYZ." But who wouldn't? After all we've been through.

I waited impatiently for Amazon to deliver my copy of Light. It took them ages after first telling me that the marketplace seller had no more copies and that I'd have to order another one. It finally came on Saturday and I've now finished the last Gone novel. It is bittersweet this final book. Not just in the way the FAYZ ends, but in the knowledge that characters that I grew to love and fear will never return. Grant drew portraits of his Perdido Beach kids that rang true, deep, and varied. They all seemed real, even the "moofs" who despite their super-powers were full of character and depth. In Light, the kids have reached what they refer to as "the endgame." It has become a battle between the gaiaphage who has taken human form in the shape of Diana's and Caine's "love child" and is now known as Gaia. Gaia has all of the powers of the other "moofs" and is growing at an inhuman rate of speed. Which is fitting considering that she is not human at all. Despite her human birth, she really is a product of the gaiaphage that is in reality a virus from another planet. Sam and Caine join forces to defeat Gaia and the other super powered children gather to help the brothers to defeat her. Even "The Healer" Lana joins the ranks in the final battle. Gaia decides to lay waste to the land in the bubble surrounding Perdido Beach to aid her in the quest to destroy the entire planet. The only thing she fears is Little Pete, Astrid's dead brother. who has managed to survive his body's death and remain in ethereal form in the FAYZ. Gaia calls him nemesis and she is terrified that he will take human form and destroy her. As the barrier gets thinner and more people from the outside world witness the death and destruction taking place on the inside of the barrier, opinion goes against the survivors of the FAYZ. The retribution that Sam has feared from the very start now seems very real and if he survives the final battle with Gaia he will have to face his accusers. Light brings an end to the Gone saga and like the rest of the novels, it entertains and excites. All the characters face their own personal Armageddon as the endgame reaches its inevitable conclusion. While the "good-guys" team up to kill Gaia, she relies on the help of her mother Diana and Drake 'whip-hand' Merwin (who still shares the same corporeal space as Brittney the religious zealot). I will miss the entire crew, Sam, Quinn, Albert, Caine, Diana, Edilio, Astrid, Little Pete, Bug, Orc, Dekka, Brianna (the Breeze), Taylor, Jack and all the other guys and girls who make up the beleaguered and embattled citizenry of Perdido Beach. But the ending of their story is just as brilliant as the rest of the books and Grant gives us a 5 star dynamite conclusion. If you've read the Gone novels, don't miss this one. If you haven't? What are you waiting for? Unlike Trix, Gone is not just for kids. To read all my reviews go to MikesFilmTalk.com

Having started to read the first book "Gone" of the series, I found that the storyline and writing was hypnotic and addictive. So much so that I bought the following four as a package and read them almost unceasingly. "Light" is the last book and brings together all the various strands to a exciting, revelationary conclusion. The characterisation is consistent and provoking in that the reader is so drawn into the individual personalities that one comes to love, hate and despair for each and every one of them. I learnt that the series was written for young people - well whilst not in my youth, I am young at heart and loved the whole series.

El libro llegó en perfecto estado

Title: Light (Final book in the Gone Series) Author: Michael Grant Rating: 5 Stars My Review - No MAJOR Spoilers. Some minor ones... Ok, so I JUST finished this story and I am tempted to just babble, "I loved it" repeatedly like a lunatic. But the truth is, I LOVED it. Perfect, perfect, perfect ending. I absolutely absorbed this book, and I knew I would. I've been on this ride with Mr. Grant for a while now and I have a lot invested in this story. Having *just* set the release date for the end of my own trilogy, I have a new and sustaining respect for anyone who attempts to bring an epic story to a satisfactory close. And the GONE series is EPIC. I love it. Ironically, the "world" is a small space, but it's an entirely different universe, no different from Middle Earth in its need for world-building. I love the "truth" of being teenagers forced to face adult issues. I love the "truth" of duality: good and evil, bravery and cowardice, life and death. In the end (though I tend to say this too often about this series) Grant is BRAVE. You know why I think so? Let me break it into categories for you. (And you thought I was going to be brief. HA!) Social Issues: Grant is brave because he's willing to muck about in religious waters that often scare authors, particularly ya authors. He has characters that had faith that lose it and others that gain it. He has characters that have no idea what they believe, but who feel the pull of ritual, the desire the make sense of it all. But none of it is a simple, trite, easy answer. Grant is brave because he's not afraid to write about 15 year olds having sex with *gasp, heaven-forbid* a few details thrown in, KNOWING that this is authentic to his story and that the characters are essentially ADULTS given their situation. Still, people are terrified of this in ya. (Bravo for showing a loving, mutual relationship in Sam and Astrid, as well.) Grant is brave because he deals in all those real-life issues of race and prejudice. Like Albert. He's the "businessman" but he's African-American, and characters are wary of him in this role at first (until they realize they're hungry). And Edilio, often referenced as the "wetback" by the nastier or more ignorant characters. The way that Grant addresses those issues and turns them on their ear without sounding preachy is excellent and gives a lot of DEPTH to a story for and about teens that one would not associate with "superhero" kind of stuff. (ie - Most adults who don't appreciate graphic novels and comics don't realize these media can include serious discussion topics) Writing: Grant is brave because he wasn't afraid to write it his way, with a kabillion shifting POVs, sometimes that last for only a few sentences at a time! No fear of HEAD-HOPPING here. Grant is brave because he wrote a sprawling epic that has WAY too many words to be MARKETABLE, right? Grant is brave because he's not afraid to take on a modern-day "Lord of the Flies" in a time when we've become increasingly uncomfortable with precocious youth. BACK TO "LIGHT" IN PARTICULAR This may be one of my favorite endings to an epic tale ever. It had exactly the right amount of tragic loss, gut-wrenching, heart-stopping loss, AND heroism, and triumph, and sacrifice and REDEMPTION. In the end, that is what this story is about, I think: redemption. I never expected anything that Caine ever said to anyone, especially Diana, to make me cry. But it did. And it was perfect. And I never expected a kiss between Astrid and Sam to feel like the last gasp of a marathon when you feel the tape snap across your chest, but it did. I practically pumped my fist in the air! (Ok, I did pump my fist in the air.) And I never expected to be so moved, so entertained, and so enthralled by such an odd, personal, and utterly genre-breaking story as the Gone Series. But I was. Go out. Buy it. Read it. May I be so fortunate as to write something that makes people say the same.

Book 6: Light I discovered the GONE-series rather late in its lifecycle, when the first 3 books were already available in German and books 4 & 5 in English. So while I was fortunate enough being able to read through all 5 books within a couple of weeks, when I finished FEAR in December with that cliffhanger ending of the dome becoming transparent after one year of isolation between the FAYZ and the outside world, I could not wait to get my hands on the final and concluding book of the series. So, I already then pre-ordered the Kindle version of LIGHT, and even scheduled a day off work for its release on April 2. And yes - it was worth the wait, and I enjoyed the better part of today to read it in one go from start to the end. I don’t want to spoil anything detailed in this review for those who look forward to enjoying this read, but let me note a few impressions. LIGHT truly is the endgame of the series, and like all epic battles between Good and Evil, the end only comes after a long fight with many casualties. Despite the transparent dome, the FAYZ goes to some dark places before the end... There is lots of blood and deaths, and not everyone you loved will survive. All main characters appear again and have their moments. The open questions from the previous books get addressed, and loose ends are tied up (in what I consider to be a satisfying way). There are lots of moments in this final book that will make you smile, or laugh out loud, and some might even move you to tears. Bottom line, for me, LIGHT has stayed true to the characters and the story built up over the past five books, and presented us with an enjoyable ending that is fully appropriate for such a great book series. I envy everyone out there who may still look forward to reading the complete series for the first time. You are in for a ride! To quote Michael Grant’s own counting, with LIGHT being done, I have spent over 3’000 pages worth of reading time in the FAYZ. It was an amazing journey, and I enjoyed every second of it.

Très bon livre, enfin la fin de la série ! Michael Grant et un génie :) Ca a été un plaisir de lire la saga Gone

it was amazing