This is the 'Gone' story line; The story follows the life of Sam (my books not with me at the moment and i forget his last name), he lives in a small house with his mother, who works at Coast Academy (a posh school on the outskirts of the small coastal town they live in). His father had left them when Sam was very young, and a couple years prior, to the beginning of this story Sam's mother had a partner, which i later discovered left because of Sam.
Sam isn't normal, by any means, he has a weird power that he doesn't understand nor knows how to control. He can shoot a beam of pure light energy from his hands, but only in extreme circumstances. One night, Sam had woken up to his mother and her partner fighting (the book didn't mention the partners name, but for the sake of my review, he shall be called Bob). Bob had a knife in his hand and Sam got really frightened, he thought Bob was trying to hurt his mother. So he panicked and shot a pure beam of light from his hand. Bob got rushed to hospital, but the doctors couldn't save his hand. Bob had been trying to tell everyone that Sam had shot him but his mother covered for him and said that Bob was seeing things. Due to Bob leaving Sam's mother they had to move into that small, horrible house due to the fact that, Sam's mother couldn't afford to keep the nice house.
The book starts on a normal school day, Sam is just sitting in class next to his best mate (well only real mate) Quin. When suddenly all kids age 15 and over just disappear. As you can imagine a world without adults would be pretty chaotic, the state of panic and confusion among the children got taken far beyond controllable. Most younger kids looked towards Sam for guidance and leadership, all of which Sam was too scared to take on. *(You find out that, Sam is some what a local hero, he once saved a whole bus of kids. They were all on a bus, when suddenly the bus driver had a heart attack, Sam rushed up the front, grabbed the steering wheel, and drove the bus to safety, then dialled for an ambulance. All of which was done whilst trying to calm a bus load of little kids.)*
The book starts on a normal school day, Sam is just sitting in class next to his best mate (well only real mate) Quin. When suddenly all kids age 15 and over just disappear. As you can imagine a world without adults would be pretty chaotic, the state of panic and confusion among the children got taken far beyond controllable. Most younger kids looked towards Sam for guidance and leadership, all of which Sam was too scared to take on. *(You find out that, Sam is some what a local hero, he once saved a whole bus of kids. They were all on a bus, when suddenly the bus driver had a heart attack, Sam rushed up the front, grabbed the steering wheel, and drove the bus to safety, then dialled for an ambulance. All of which was done whilst trying to calm a bus load of little kids.)*
Sam has had a crush on the smartest and prettiest girl in his grade, Astrid, for as long as he can remember. However he had never acted on it, until all the chaos began. Astrid has a 5 year old, autistic brother whom was out with his father when everyone 'poofed'. Astrid asked Sam if he could help her locate little Pete (Petey). Astrid didn't know where he was, because she didn't know which parent he went to work with on that day. So Sam and Quin left town to help out Astrid, they ended up finding him up in the nuclear power plant, where Astrid's dad worked.
The nuclear power plant had once been hit by a asteroid, the asteroid hit the tank containing the dangerous radioactive substance, luckily the asteroid was travelling that fast that it made a hole a couple kilometers deep, which took all the toxic stuff in with it. However instead of treating it properly, the workers just cemented over it. This is why the town is nick named, Fallout Alley; this is also the reason why the population decreased significantly and is only now a very small town.
Anyway, a sphere has formed within a (not sure what number) kilometers radius around the power plant, trapping everything and everyone off from the normal universe, thats to say, (they're still in the normal universe). If the giant wall is touched, you get seriously burnt, this wall can't be penetrated and some even think even if it is broken there will be nothing on the outside.That is just the basics of the story. So much more has happened since then, every week i shall fill you in a little. However this is the last time I'm going back to fill in detail. From now on I'm just going to continue to tell you about what is happening, which might confuse you, but in the end it will all make sense. Otherwise it takes just too much time, just look at how much has been written here, just briefly about the beginning.
Thanks for reading :)
1 comment:
Miranda,
It's fantastic to see that you are enjoying your novel, and that you are so enthusiastic about sharing the book with other people.
Your blog is looking very much up to date so well done :)
Just make sure that you continue to proof read your work before publishing.
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