'Hunger' by Michael Grant

Imagine this: Bang, Poof. All of a sudden, your mum who you could hear singing sooo badly, has just stopped. Your dad, who was making you breakfast is nowhere to be seen. Well, this is exactly what happens in Hunger by Michael Grant. There's no parents, almost no food, no law, animals are mutating and children are developing strange powers but worst of all, something is waiting. Waiting deep within an abandoned mine shaft, waiting to be fed. Sam, the elected mayor the FAYZ (the name given to the huge dome that spans 20 miles across the Perdido beach area in California) has to deal with all these problems. But he's against the clock, there's just 106 hours and 29 minutes until Sam's

brother decides to feed the thing deep under the Earth.

Michael Grant was brilliant at building suspense. The story changes between Sam's view and Cain's view and very often when the story changes between Sam and Cain, you are left with a cliff hanger. I would highly recommend this book to all the people who are bored of vampires and secret agents. 10/10.

by Iain Parker