299 hours. 54 minutes.
Suddenly it's a world without adults and normal has crashed and burned. When life has you know it ends at fifteen, everything changes.
A small town in Southern Califonia: in the blink of an eye everyone outside the age of fifteen dissapears. Cut off from the outside world, those who are left are trapped, and there's no help on the way. Chaos rules the street.
Now a new life order is rising and, even scarier, some survivers have power - mutant power that no one has seen before ...
Escapism doesn't get better then this. (Followed by a cruelty and violence warning).
Maybe I am just a sensitive person, but man, is that cruelty and violence warning neccesary. If Stephen King wrote books for YA, this is exactly what I would have in mind. Detailed, action packed, some scenes will really make your skin crawl...
First of all, character development, I think that instead of them developing, their real person started to show as they became brave and all of them (even the crazy ones) had a great personality in the book that shone from the pages. Not great as in good, great as in well done. Luna is, by far, my favourite so it was a dissapointment that she didn't get more parts in the book as I hoped she would. I also kinda like Diana, as even though she is an evil person, good shines from her occasionally. Very occasionally and subtly.
It was action packed and there was rarely a chapter without something happening. Oddly realistic to what might actually happen if this situation was ever to happen. I also like how Little Pete was seen as powerful and smart, as I too have autism and dissaprove of the way autism is being presented (even if Grant still used the autism stereotype of a young, smart boy).
Overall, if you don't have a weak or sensitive heart like I do, you'll love this and will be eager to continue on with the series. I rated this four out of five stars.
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