Fear and Light by Michael Grant
This year I had the pleasure of finishing a series that I
had been reading for several years. Gone
by Michael Grant was a book I picked up when I was looking for new science
fiction books to use in my classroom. Essentially,
a giant dome appears over a section of California and everyone over the age of
fourteen disappears. Instead of just
being a story of kids trying to survive, some of the kids trapped start to
develop powers, giving the series a bit more of the science fiction edge. I've been up and down with the series (the
second book is my least favorite and almost caused me to give up the series),
but the heart of the story was always kids working together to survive, and was
what kept me coming back.
Fear followed by Light are the last two books in the
series. I won’t say too much if you
haven’t picked up Gone yet, but I was very satisfied by the end. Sometimes when you invest your time in six
books you’re disappointed in the end, but that wasn't the case here. I didn't love all of the plot points in the
last few books (a baby being born, for example), but I was emotionally pleased
with the characters’ endings, which was important to me after six books.
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