SuitabookMonster
Michael Grant
- Reading
- This is the first book of the Monster trilogy and follows the Gone series. If the reader has not read Gone, consider whether they would enjoy entering a story whose opening situation refers back to events four years earlier.
- Themes
- Power and heroism: Some teenagers begin to become heroes, while others become dangerously out of control as the world faces a battle. The contrast between heroism and dangerous loss of control invites readers to consider what makes the use of power helpful or harmful.
- A threat that expands: The premise moves from an earlier isolated crisis under a dome to meteorites carrying a deadlier virus, threatening people more widely. The speculative setup connects a virus with mutation as the danger spreads beyond the earlier crisis under the dome.
- Worth knowing
- The premise includes a deadlier virus, human mutation, hunger, fear and the prospect of violent conflict. These elements may be worth considering for a reader who finds threats to people or intense peril difficult.