Okay so this is my thoughts on the last book in the series Gone by Michael Grant called Light. 

If you haven't read Light then you probably shouldn't read this because it has all spoilers. And if you haven't read the series, then go read it if you're 11+. It's supposed to be, probably 13+ but from society today, I think a lot of 11 year olds are reading or most likely, watching stuff like this all the time. The first book's called Gone.

If you like super powers and action then read it. Like most things, this is for school. Enjoy. 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SPOILER ALERT~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is the last book in the series, and it had a very long epilogue that was divided into three parts. I did not like the ending, because I don't like any endings in any books, because it’s the end of the book, but this ending was just bad. The story just ended suddenly; the antagonist was killed, the main character’s brother died, and the dome was lifted. The kids got back to their families. The end. I think the epilogue had more detail and entertainment than the actual story did. This is the worst book in the series. The epilogue also could have said some things that were not cleared up. Michael Grant did not use the character Lana very well. He made it look like Lana was going to be an important character in the last book, since she was one of the first characters introduced in the entire series, and was described as “the one person the Gaiaphage (the antagonist) could not control and power over, the one the Gaiaphage almost feared itself” so it looked like she was the one who was going to stand up to it and kill it.

But she didn’t. In the whole series, she gets a voice, yet she never gets to do anything with her point of view, never actually getting in action like Sam, Diana, Caine, and all the other important characters that faced the battle too. Lana was a powerful person, who could kill easily, and Grant should have given her more voice. Most of the people he gave a voice of action to died, and I didn’t want Lana to die, but I would have rather her do something important, using her power to never get hurt in battle, and died a heroic death that made the story 100 times better, than not doing anything at all. She would have helped out a lot, since she couldn’t die easily, and done the things that killed most of the kids better, since they died and she could heal herself. Gaia used that power for the smarter idea; Gaia used it in battle, something Grant never had Lana do, and Gaia was unbeatable, since she couldn’t’ die, with Lana’s power. Yet Grant never thought about letting LANA do it.

Grant also led up in that book that Lana might be important, like I said before, by saying that the Gaiaphage was “unbeatable” because it had Lana’s healing power, and without it, it would die easily. This made it seem that in the end, Lana would face the Gaiaphage, almost kill it, die, and have Sam kill it in the end. But NOPE. In the end, CAINE dies, and kills Gaia, which didn’t make any sense, since Caine apparently kills it with his power of force, making the Light from Gaia backfire at her, killing her, and also killing himself too. That doesn’t make sense, because how could he, himself just kill Gaia like that? In about three sentences, the thing that has been the BIGGEST problem since book two GONE? He just fires, he kills her, she dies, and her Light kills him too. And it’s over. Why did Caine have to die? If his power ricocheted back to Gaia, then why did HE die too? How could the Gaiaphage die so easily, after countless wars from hundreds of kids, she still lives, but when Caine comes back in the end, and only the end, because before Caine couldn’t do squat, even though she still has Lana’s healing power, she dies.

At the beginning of the book, it was titled Light, and I thought to myself, “Well, the last book was Fear, so I’m guessing this is the end where the kids finally get out. They finally see the light, and freedom, all’s fine now. One one’s scared anymore and the Gaiaphage is gone. Wait, but how could the Gaiaphage be gone? Light… oh! Sam kills her with his light! That makes sense, because the opposite and enemy of darkness is light, and that’s Sam, the main character’s power. I’m guess that’s why his power in the first place was light! It was a metaphor saying that Sam was the one who would defeat The Darkness in the end, and the one who would bring hope to everyone, being the leader an all! Good job Michal Grant, you know exactly what you’re doing!”

Unfortunately, that didn’t happen. The kids saw the light… to heaven. 60% of the kids died. Sam was only the leader in the first three books, then he gave up from all the pressure and stress, and he doesn’t even kill Gaia in the end. Caine does. It was apparently, “Sam’s light “ that killed her, but it wasn’t his body, his mind, or anything to do with him.

In the epilogue, Grant should have explained more. There were many unanswered things, like what happened to the love triangle between Lana, Quinn, and Sanjit? What happened to Drake? What happened to Edilio and Roger? What happened to all the kids who stole, killed, and every kind of crime imaginable? In the book, Sam always wondered what would happen to all the kids after this was all over; would they go to jail, a lab, or a mental house? Well we want to know too, Sam. The ending was bad, and Grant should have given more voice to some characters. A lot of characters, like Brianna, had unnecessary deaths that annoyed a lot of people. He could have made the ending to the series a lot better.