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Fear (Gone Book 5) Kindle Edition

by Michael Grant (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,601 ratings
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The fifth book in the bestselling Gone series by Michael Grant continues the page-turning saga of Sam, Astrid, and Drake in their terrifying post-apocalyptic world.

It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.

Despite the hunger, despite the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear.

Within the FAYZ, life breaks down while the Darkness takes over—turning the dome-world of the FAYZ entirely black. A will to survive and a desire to take care of those they love endure in this ravaged band, even in the bleakest moments. But in darkness, the worst fears of all emerge, and the cruelest of intentions are carried out. After so many months, is all about to be lost in the FAYZ?

“Fans can count on more excellent storytelling, multidimensional characters who continue to develop in unexpected ways, and some mighty find eye-popping moments.” —VOYA (starred review)

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  6. Publication date
    3 April 2012
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    14 - 17 years
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Grant's masterstroke continues to be how his huge cast of dangerously talented mutants remains as haunted and fallible as anyone else.-- "Booklist"

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It's been one year since all the adults disappeared. Gone.

despite the hunger, despite the lies, even despite the plague, the kids of Perdido Beach are determined to survive. Creeping into the tenuous new world they've built, though, is the worst incarnation yet of the enemy known as the Darkness: fear.

Within the FAYZ, life breaks down while the Darkness takes over--turning the dome-world of the FAYZ entirely black. A will to survive and a desire to take care of those they love endures in this ravaged band, even in the bleakest moments. But in darkness, the worst fears of all emerge, and the cruelest of intentions are carried out. After so many months, is all about to be lost in the FAYZ?

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005UD1ESE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Katherine Tegen Books; Illustrated edition (3 April 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1873 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 549 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,601 ratings

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Michael Grant was born in Los Angeles but that's not important because he was soon out of there. His father was a military man, frequently transferred, so Michael was the "new kid" in school every year but one. He left school early and embraced the rootless lifestyle as his own. He's lived in more flats and houses than he can recall, all across the US and in France and Italy as well. He's back in California as of this writing but with no plans to stay put.

Michael met his wife, Katherine (K.A.) Applegate, 37 years ago, in Austin, Texas. He saw her through her apartment window and immediately knocked on her door. They've been together since that first meeting.

Michael Grant did not set out to be a writer. He's worked as a stock clerk, a house painter, an apartment manager, busboy, waiter, restaurant manager, janitor, editorial cartoonist, political media consultant, documentary producer, and no doubt some other jobs he's managed to forget. After ten years working odd jobs together, Katherine informed Michael that it was time for them both to grow up, get careers, possibly have children. Once he was revived, Michael agreed.

Katherine and Michael began writing in 1989, often as a team, and wrote 150 books, including the ANIMORPHS series.

They have two disobedient children, Jake, 19, and Julia, 16, a yappy Chihuahua-ish dog (Katherine's), a hateful cat named Lightning (Katherine's) and an okay cat named Scooter.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Loved It
Reviewed in Australia on 17 November 2017
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This is an AMAZING book with so much drama. The whole gone series is incredible I don't want to stop reading:)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
Reviewed in Australia on 25 December 2015
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Awesome book best book I've apart from the Harry potter series of course!!!!😀 😊 😇 😆 😄 😂 🏄 🏃
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AimForMagic
4.0 out of 5 stars Fear is good, and exciting still
Reviewed in Australia on 1 June 2016
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I'm thinking this series could have been, and should have been made as a trilogy. Fear is good, and exciting still. But its more of the same thing. And that's letting the whole series down
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Adrián
5.0 out of 5 stars Libro para completar serie
Reviewed in Spain on 3 January 2022
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Fue un regalo y llegó en perfectas condiciones.
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Caterina Mora
2.0 out of 5 stars più horror che fantascienza
Reviewed in Italy on 13 March 2016
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L'autore si è dilungato troppo su particolari horror. Le morti dei ragazzi potevano essere descritte con meno dovizia di particolari che tra l'altro nulla apportano di particolarmente interessante allo svolgimento della storia anzi a volte la rallentano.
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Lilly McLeod
5.0 out of 5 stars Der fünfte Band ist phänomental. Absolute Sogwirkung
Reviewed in Germany on 20 September 2015
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Das Cover

Auch den fünften Band habe ich nur noch mit dem neuen Cover bekommen. Ich bin nach wie vor froh, dass sich am Format nichts geändert hat und die Bücher nebeneinander passen, allerdings sehen die neuen Cover schon ganz anders aus. Dieses hier passt thematisch gesehen super, auch wenn man das vorher nicht weiß. Mir gefällt es, dass die krassen, leuchtenden Farbwahlen eingehalten wurden. Im Band vier war es ein krasses grün, jetzt ein starkes Orange-gelb. Der Titel ist erneut ein Eyecatcher und trifft das Thema des Buches natürlich im Kern.

Kurze Inhaltsbeschreibung

Im vorletzten Band der Gone-Reihe bekommen die Jugendlichen es mit einer Form von Angst zu tun, die wir alle kennen und die für die Jugendlichen eine tödliche Katastrophe bedeutet.
Die Kuppel, die sie von der Außenwelt trennt, verändert sich. Bisher simulierte sie stets einen gewohnten Ablauf von Tag und Nacht. Doch jetzt wird die durchsichtige Kuppel fest.
Es beginnt mit unauffälligen schwarzen Stellen, aber diese breiten sich immer schneller aus und überziehen von überall die Barriere. Sam, Astrid, Dekka, Albert und Caine ahnen, wenn die Kuppel ganz in schwarz gehüllt ist, wird es kein Licht mehr geben. Die Jugendlichen wären nicht nur von der Welt abgeschnitten, sondern gefangen in absoluter Dunkelheit. Sie wissen, was das bedeutet: Angst, Panik und Tod.
Die Anführer Sam und Caine müssen trotz aller Differenzen zusammenhalten. Aber schaffen sie den Wettlauf gegen die Zeit? Gibt es überhaupt einen Weg die Veränderung aufzuhalten?

Während die Jugendlichen, um ihr Überleben kämpfen, ahnen sie nicht, dass außerhalb der Barriere das Militär einen nuklearen Angriff in Erwägung zieht, um die Kuppel ein für alle mal zu zerstören.

Schreibstil und Storyverlauf

Zum Schreibstil des Autors möchte ich nicht mehr so viel schreiben. Seit vier Bänden lobe und schwärme ich davon. Eigentlich könnte ich die ganze Rezension kurz halten und an dieser Stelle schreiben: Lest die Reihe, wenn ihr sie noch nicht kennt. Sie ist der absolute Wahnsinn!
Im Detail gesagt ist auch dieser Band hier eine spannende, absolut rasante Achterbahn der Gefühle gewesen. Nervenkitzel pur und erneut eine phänomenale Ausarbeitung psychischer Abläufe und eine unglaublich nahe Behandlung der verschiedenen Auswirkungen von Angst.
Der Autor verbindet hier erstmals klar die beiden Handlungsstränge innerhalb und außerhalb der Kuppel und gewährt der Geschichte so noch eine weitere spannende Geschichte, die mir sehr gut gefallen hat.
Man spürt den Showdown nahen und auch wenn das Ende mir nicht ganz so gut gefallen hat, wie bei den Büchern davor, war das Buch alles in allem wieder ein absolutes Highlight. Ich habe mitgefiebert, mitgelitten und konnte überhaupt nicht aufhören zu lesen, weil das Buch mich so in die Geschichte gesogen hat.

Die Charaktere und ihre Entwicklung

In diesem Buch steht natürlich wieder Sam im Vordergrund. Seine Sicht ist präsent und endlich ist er mit sich im Reinen und hat einen Weg gefunden, seine Rolle zu akzeptieren und seiner Verantwortung gerecht zu werden, in dem Umfang, den er leisten kann. Sam will kein Held mehr sein, er will einfach nur noch tun, was richtig ist. Seine Entwicklung war toll zu lesen und ich hatte das Gefühl ihm in diesem Buch sehr gut verstehen zu können.

Astrid macht die krasseste Entwicklung im Buch durch. Sie hat sich sehr verändert, wie ich finde durchaus zum Positiven. Bei ihr habe ich nach wie vor den Eindruck, dass sie viel stärker ist, als sie nach Außen hin wirkt. Emotional ist sie jedoch nach den Geschehnissen aus Band 4 stark mitgenommen und das wirkt sich auf ihr Handeln und auch auf ihre Beziehung zu Sam aus. Die Kapitel mit ihr haben sehr viel Spaß gemacht, da ich der Figur endlich etwas näher kommen konnte.

Caine und Diana, die ebenfalls in diesem Buch eine ganz wichtige und große Rolle einnehmen, gehören von Anfang an zu meinen Lieblingsfiguren. Meine Liebe wurde auf eine harte Probe gestellt, denn die beiden Figuren gehen sprichwörtlich durch die Fayz-Hölle und ich habe furchtbar mit ihnen mitgelitten. Caine ist nach wie vor komplex, nicht besonders durchsichtig und sein Moralverständnis ist nicht das Beste, dennoch gehört er weiterhin zu meinen Lieblingsfiguren und es wird sehr spannend sein, zu sehen, wie er sich im Finale entwickelt. Caine ist eine Figur bei der man nie weiß, woran man ist. Er könnte zum Helden werden und ebenso zum Anti-Helden. Ich bin gespannt, was der Autor ihm zugedacht hat.
Mit Diana musste ich leider nur leiden und leiden und leiden. Ich wollte nicht, dass ihre Geschichte diese Entwicklung nimmt, aber der Autor ist unberechenbar und hat es genau so enden lassen, wie ich es nicht lesen wollte. Ich habe jetzt schon Angst weiterzulesen, aber weiß genau, dass ich trotzdem wissen muss, wie es ausgeht.

Die Nebenfiguren Quinn, Lana, Sanjit, Albert und Dekka, sowie auch Orc und Brianna sind ebenfalls erneut stark eingebunden und unheimlich greifbar für den Leser. Ganz zu schweigen von der Crew der ‚Bösewichte’. Drake/Bridney bekommt in diesem Buch sogar noch Zuwachs und ich bin nicht sicher, wen ich mehr hasse: Drake oder seine neue Freundin.

Fazit

Der fünfte Band ist genauso phänomenal, spannend, rasant und emotional wie die vier Vorgänger. Diese psychologisch genialen Jugendbuch-Thriller mit Fantasyelementen sind unheimlich lesenswert und haben für mich optimale Sogwirkung. Ich liebe den Autor und ich liebe diese Reihe.
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Chris 07-21
5.0 out of 5 stars Fear not ...
Reviewed in Canada on 12 June 2013
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... because this was another great episode of the "Gone" series. Maybe a shade less than a few of the other books I gave five stars to, but five stars nonetheless. Big things happened (one character died for the second time!) and I really want to quote a comical line from the end of the book, but that would give away a huge plot from the story.

Sam et al - see you in "Light"!
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OpheliasOwn
5.0 out of 5 stars It Just Gets BETTER!
Reviewed in the United States on 22 December 2012
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There is nothing more controlling and irrational than fear. You would think the kids in the FAYZ would have nothing left to fear after the gaiaphage, a kid with a whip hand, a girl who can make you think you are suffering your worst fears, murderous bugs the size of cars, and life without the adults who should be taking care of them, but they have never experienced real fear. In the fifth installment of Michael Grant's Gone Series, Fear, we get a taste of just how much terror is too much.

Sam, Edilio, and Dekka have made as stable of a life as they can in the FAYZ. They moved to the lake where they have plenty of water and houseboats to hide on in case of an emergency. Caine is now calling himself King Caine and ruling with the madness he has become known for. But some alliances have changed. Quinn organizes the fishing for both camps, Albert (who was always out for himself) deals to both sides, and Diana, now pregnant, has left Caine to live with Sam and the others at the lake. But the most painful is Astrid's abandonment. She left Sam and everyone else who reminded her about how she sacrificed her little autistic brother Petey to stop the bugs from annihilating the kids at Perdido Beach. But oddly, even with the division, this is most stability the FAYZ has ever seen. That is, until the dome starts to go dark.

The stain is slowly creeping up the dome and threatens to plunge the entire place into complete darkness. It takes everything Sam can do to keep the kids from panicking, but with the coyotes becoming desperate and Drake "Whip Hand" Merwin skulking about, there are reasons to be afraid of pure darkness. Sam can hang as many "Sammy Suns" (little orbs of light from his powers) as he wants, but it won't save hem from the crushing darkness. And now that Drake and the gaiaphage think Diana's baby is the key to giving the gaiaphage a body, there is more at risk than anyone can possibly understand. And that is only what is happening on the inside of the dome. On the outside? People are prepared to do unspeakable things to stop what they fear is inside from getting out. Even if that means sacrificing everyone inside the dome.

Oh boy. Boy, oh boy. This series doesn't just age well like cheese, it transforms with each book into a mind-blowing experience where you find yourself asking, "How can Grant do that? Did he really just go there?! What, for the love of all that is holy, is happening?!" Five books in and this series simply doesn't get old. It doesn't get predictable. It knocks your socks off with each new installment. It is, quite simply, brilliant. Of course, the story does get darker with each new book, and Grant doesn't pull any punches with the kids in the FAYZ, but if I know anything about teenagers (and I certainly hope I do after ten years teaching in a high school), it is how much they appreciate an author who trusts his or her readers to experience a serious story. They like an author who doesn't hold back just because this is a young adult series. And most of all, they like a story that will shock them with every turn. Well, here it is!

Last year, I had been telling a 9th grade student of mine about this series. He loves graphic novels, but doesn't read full length novels outside of literature class. I told him about the story and then the year continued. Then, at our Parents' Weekend, his mother tracked me down to tell me he devoured the first four books of this series. She told me these are the first books she had seen him actually enjoy reading, and she was thankful I had mentioned them to him, because, in her words, her son was now "a reader". It was amazing to hear that we had finally found a series of books he could enjoy at that level, but more importantly, Michael Grant made him a reader. If that isn't a solid endorsement for this groundbreaking series, I am not sure what is! So if you have a kid out there who just needs to find the right series to make them a reader, consider Gone. It might be just the thing that kid needs to become a book lover!
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