📖 Light: A Gone Novel

Before we talk about Light, let's talk about two of my favorite book genres: Sci-Fi and dystopia. I liked Sci-Fi because there's literally so many places it could go. Aliens? Time travel? Anomalies? Cyborgs? Talking animals (Certain types)? Even some forms of magic are included in the world of Sci-Fi. Then dystopias are great because oppressed societies are also awesome. In the media, I mean. There are plenty of great gems in the dystopian world, and it's not just limited to books, either. Fahrenheit 451!The Hunger Games (Both the books and the movies)!Blade Runner! All three games that Project Moon has made! Now that I've expressed my undying love for the two genres, let's talk about Michael Grant's book series Gone…and how he combined the two genres. The plot to theGoneseries is actually pretty simple. The main story spans over six books (technically there's nine, but I'm not counting Monster, Villain,and Hero) and mainly follows the perspective of our protagonist, Sam Temple, although the POV does switch from character to character from time to time. Anyway, the story takes place in the town of Perdido Beach, California, where for some inexplicable reason, a massive, mysterious Dome has appeared over the entire town. The Dome is extremely large, managing to encompass the entire town of Perdido Beach, the nearby Coates Academy, some of the sea, an old mineshaft, and a couple of lakes and forests. Also, every single man, woman, and child over the age of fifteen simply disappears. They are Gone, and only the children of Perdido Beach remain. They soon realize that they are trapped inside the town, which, also quite unfortunately, has limited food and water sources. It also doesn't help that some kids begin developing literal superpowers. The Gone series tells a story about the various 300 or so kids trying to take leadership, fight with superpowers, defeat the Darkness (that guy is a whole other thing), struggle against the different factions that form, and most importantly, survive. The Gone series is easily one of the best series I've ever read. The first reason is probably the stakes. I've read books that have both done stakes well (The Poppy War, The Hunger Games) and books that haven't done stakes well. Near the end of the book, I couldn't even tell if Sam was going to survive. It's not just the main characters, however. Gone is one of those series that makes you care about its minor characters as well. In Light, our last book, many of my favorite characters did die, deaths that I didn't see coming. Sure, there were a few easy-to-spot death fodder characters (Sorry E.Z., Paint, and Andrew), but people like Howard? Brianna? Orc (ALL THAT DEVELOPMENT)?! My second point is that the series was realistic. Well, about as realistic as a story about a bunch of kids trapped in a giant, inverted fishbowl could be, anyway. I loved the rise of the Human Crew, made up of kids who hated and were envious of kids who had developed powers. Plus, later when the Dome became transparent and the outside world could see into the Dome, I loved Grant's incorporation of the media outlets and the internet into the story. The internet, disappointedly but realistically, fractured into coteries and argued over whether they should try to save the Perdido Beach kids or just nuke the Dome. My third and final favorite thing about the Gone series is just the characters in general. They were legitimately very, very well-written. Drake Merwin's fear of Brianna Berenson and the other's fear of Drake himself especially was delivered very well. Astrid Ellison's guilt over almost killing Little Pete and Caine Soren's unethicality were both phenomenal. My favorite bit of character development was probably from Charles Merriman. You really just need to read it to experience it.

在我们讨论"光"之前,让我们先谈谈我最喜欢的两个书类:科幻和反乌托邦。 我喜欢科幻作品,因为它可以有无限的可能性。比如外星人?时间旅行?异常现象?生化人?会说话的动物(某些种类)?甚至某些形式的魔法也包含在科幻世界中。 然后,反乌托邦题材的作品也很棒,因为被压迫的社会在媒体中也很吸引人。在反乌托邦世界中,有很多优秀的作品,而不仅仅是局限于书籍。《华氏451度》!《饥饿游戏》(包括书籍和电影)!《银翼杀手》!"月球项目"制作的三款游戏! 既然我已经表达了我对这两个题材的无尽热爱,那么让我们来谈谈迈克尔·格兰特的《失踪》系列书籍,以及他是如何将这两个题材结合在一起的。 《失踪系列》的故事其实很简单。故事跨越了六本书(实际上有九本,但不包括《怪物》、《恶棍》和《英雄》),主要以我们的主角萨姆·坦普尔的观点为主,但视角有时会从一个人切换到另一个人。总之,故事发生在加利福尼亚州的佩尔迪多海滩镇,那里莫名其妙地出现了一个巨大的、神秘的穹顶,覆盖了整个城镇。穹顶非常大,足以容纳整个佩尔迪多海滩镇、附近的考茨学院、部分海洋、一个旧矿井、几片湖泊和森林。 此外,从十五岁开始,每一个男人、女人和孩子都突然消失了。他们"消失"了,只有佩迪多海滩的孩子们还留在这里。他们很快意识到自己被困在了这个小镇里,不幸的是,小镇的食品和水源也有限。更糟糕的是,一些孩子开始拥有真正的超能力。 《失踪系列》讲述了大约300名孩子试图担任领导者、与超能力作斗争、战胜黑暗(那个家伙完全是另一回事)、与形成的不同派系作斗争,以及最重要的是,生存的故事。 《失踪系列》是我读过的最好的系列小说之一。 第一个原因可能是情节的设置。我读过一些情节设置得很好的书(比如《罂粟之战》和《饥饿游戏》),也有一些书在这方面做得不好。读到书的结尾时,我都不知道萨姆是否能活下来。 然而,不仅仅是主角。《消失》系列会让你对次要角色也产生共鸣。在《光》这本书中,我最喜欢的一些角色确实死了,他们的死是我没有预料到的。当然,也有一些很容易就能看出是"炮灰"的角色(对不起,E.Z.、Paint和Andrew),但像霍华德?布莱安娜?奥克(所有这些发展!)这样的角色呢? 第二点是,这部系列小说是现实主义的。嗯,至少在讲述一群被困在巨型倒置鱼缸里的孩子故事时,它是尽可能现实的。我喜欢"人类船员"的崛起,由那些讨厌和嫉妒拥有超能力孩子的孩子组成。此外,当穹顶变得透明,外面的世界可以看到穹顶内的情况时,我喜欢格兰特将媒体和互联网融入故事的方式。互联网令人失望但现实地分裂成派系,争论是否应该拯救佩迪多海滩的孩子,还是直接摧毁穹顶。 我最喜欢《失踪》系列的第三件事就是角色。他们的角色塑造得非常出色。德拉克·默温对布里安娜·伯森的恐惧以及其他人对德拉克的恐惧表现得非常到位。阿斯特丽德·埃利斯森对差点杀了小皮特的内疚感和凯恩·索伦的不道德行为都表现得非常出色。我最喜欢的角色发展可能是查尔斯·梅里曼的。你真的需要亲自读一读才能体会到。