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Summary
Summary
A cross between the Gone series and Lord of the Flies, Quarantine #2: The Saints continues this frenetically paced and scary young adult series that illustrates just how deadly high school can be. Nothing was worse than being locked in--until they opened the door...
McKinley High has been a battleground for eighteen months since a virus outbreak led to a military quarantine of the school. When the doors finally open, Will and Lucy think their nightmare is finished. But they are gravely mistaken. As a new group of teens enters the school and gains popularity, Will and Lucy join new gangs. An epic party on the quad full of real food and drinks, where kids hook up and actually interact with members of other gangs seemed to signal a new, easier existence. Soon after, though, the world inside McKinley takes a startling turn for the worse, and Will and Lucy will have to fight harder than ever to survive. The Saints brings readers back to the dark and deadly halls of McKinley High and the Quarantine series.
Reviews (3)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 9 Up-In this sequel to The Loners (Egmont USA, 2012), Will and Lucy remain trapped in the battleground that is McKinley High. Without Will's brother David's leadership, the remaining members of the Loners drift away to join other gangs. The virus that trapped the students in the school remains deadly and only with the help of the parents does life go on. But with the addition of a new group of students, the dynamic changes and loyalties shift. Will must deal with his epilepsy and Lucy must toughen up. And do their feelings for each other have any chance of surviving? Thomas knows how to write a compelling story with flawed characters and intense situations, but the graphic violence, sexual situations, and use of strong language make this most appropriate for more mature readers. Buy where the first book is popular.-Heidi Grange, Summit Elementary School, Smithfield, UT (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Will, Lucy, and their friends fail to be rescued from McKinley High, where teens are still quarantined after the virus outbreak. Gates becomes leader of the new gang of wild-living jocks, and the Loners must re-evaluate whom to trust. Unevenly paced and gory, the story follows the same formula as Quarantine: The Loners--an intriguing character study of teens fighting for survival. (c) Copyright 2014. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
A slapdash continuation of the story of a high school in quarantine that started in The Loners (2012). The infected, gun-wielding kids who broke into McKinley High keep the door open long enough for most of the Loners clique to escape before outside adults re-seal it, restarting the familiar plot. Now Lucy and Will struggle at the bottom of the social heat, and a group of parents has taken over responsibility for the school, food drops and "graduation." Besides the disbanding of the Loners, the other clique shake-up is Varsity's ouster of dictatorial Sam. Vulnerable Will stumbles into a party thrown by the heretofore-ignored newly trapped kids, nicknamed Saints after their school mascot, and joins. Soon Will and the Saints' unbalanced leader control the parents through extortion and throw wild parties featuring entrances on motorcycles and the riding of a live, wild hog (a transparent, clumsy link to Lord of the Flies); despite the flash, it's a slow-paced, tensionless storyline. Meanwhile, Lucy joins the Sluts, who welcome her with sexual bullying during "Naked Week," a hazing ritual introduced through writing on par with bad porn. This book never lets plausibility get in the way of objectification--one character plans a grandiose gentlemen's club in the war-torn high school, and female sexuality is constantly bartered. Near the end, Thomas (Lex Hrabe and Thomas Voorhies' collective pen name) finally remembers the first novel's only successful element: Gore. Implausible, poorly written trash that, most damningly, bores. (Science fiction. 16-18)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
