Same old Same old

It nice when things are familiar, especially in a series.  Lies starts of just like the other books of the GONE series with our (and my) hero Sam Temple and his thoughts.  He is still asking the same questions that he has been asking in each book.  What is the FAYZ? How did this happen? Plus facing new problems as the reluctantly appointed leader of the town.  Witht he electricity out and there is no water supply.  He walks around the town and runs into kids with powers one of which can read peoples dreams, and even the dreams of Sam's mother.  This same conflict of Sam and the mysteries facing his mother confront him once again.  Now while to some they may possibly view repition as a lazy tactic of an author, I would have to disagree.  Not only do reoccurring themes ties together a series and make them one big piece, but they also help fans of the series settle right back to the state of mind they were in reading the previous book.  I feel repition is the most useful tool that an author of a series can use for this purpose.

NEW BOOK

Soo while Hunger Games was amazing and I cannot wait to read the second book,  I have yet to get my hands on a copy.  Lazy you say? A little.  Done with reading forever? I think not! Instead i will be reading the third novel of one of my facortie fiction series, GONE.  The third book is entitled Lies and the series author is Michael Grant, and for the readers who are not familiar with these books I wanted to give a quick summary of what is going on.  Basically this is a world with no adults and kids with superpowers.  Sounds awesome? It's not.  This kids face starvation, evil kids with powers, a dome surrounding them that burns you when you touch it, and oh yeah the fact that when you turn 16 you disappear, unless youre Sam.  Sam was able to come back after his birthday (shocking that the main character stays in the novel).  So these kids do not know what happened and they are not getting far on figuring it out.  This series is like one long Twilight Zone episode, and Twilight Zone is one of my favorite shows.  I'm so glad i finally get a chance to read this novel.