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"The best high-concept YA thriller of the year is this paranoia-soaked novel in which an infected Colorado high school is quarantined by the government, leading to various cliques that transform into warring tribes. Gritty and fearless." - Booklist"... (a) high-concept mashup, tossing Walter Hill's The Warriors into a high school setting and seeding it with elements of Lord of the Flies." - Publishers Weekly "Quarantine thrives on themes of human nature and an ultra-realistic tone. Unpredictable, gory, and full of death and despair, this story is not for the light-hearted." - VOYA"You will not be able to put this book down." - Huffington Post Books
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About the Author
Lex Thomas is the pen name used by the writing team of Lex Hrabe and Thomas Voorhies. Lex and Thomas met in a writers' group in Los Angeles. Their friendship developed as they tried to blow each other's minds with clips from bizarre movies. Soon after, they became a screenwriting team and found that writing with a friend is much more fun than doing it alone. QUARANTINE: THE LONERSÂ is their first novel.
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Product details
Series: Quarantine (Book 1)
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab ® (June 11, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1606844385
ISBN-13: 978-1606844380
Product Dimensions:
5.1 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.2 out of 5 stars
137 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#89,412 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Over the years, I have soured on the topic of YA (young adult) novels. The vast majority are poorly written and shallow at best. However, there is an exception to every rule and a rule to every exception.The Quarantine Trilogy by Lex Thomas (there's another Quarantine trilogy out there, but I haven't read that one) is one of those shining gems that resembles hope for YA fiction. Overall, I say it's a beautiful satire on the rage of our youth.The basic setup is to take a ~2,000 kid high school, lock it down, and kill all the adults. That's the first two chapters. From there, McKinley High School becomes hell on earth.After the setup, what once seemed like a relatively peaceful high school is now a gritty survival, kill-or-be-killed scenario. This book has nonstop obscenities, brutal, graphic violence (vividly described enough to make me nauseous, and I play Mortal Kombat for fun), and charged sexual content. Oh, wait, isn't that just a slightly hyperbolic version of what we have today? Exactly.For the concerned parent, I assure you, this is nothing your kid hasn't seen before. One week in a public high school, and the only thing they'll learn from this book is how to write an excellent satire (a very worthy talent, I might add). I was very sheltered at home, with a helicopter mom and a hypervigilant father, but by the time I read this book in freshman year, I saw nothing new. It was just an exaggerated rendition of my everyday life, put into better words than I could've done at the time.I give this book a full 5 stars for the solid writing and realism.
4.5 STARS! First I must admit that this is one of those books I read the "free sample" for and then turned away from purchasing it and going any further. It's not that it wasnt intriguing, but I thought, "Here we go again, another catastrophic virus forces teens to be locked inside a high school and all hell breaks loose during the quarantine". In fact, I contemplated naming a book shelf HS Quarantine because this theme has been done again and again, BUT I decided to give this book one more try after reading some trusted reviews. I have to say, I'm so glad I did because this book was an absolute thrill ride! I forced myself to put it down this morning at 2:00 am out of necessity, but devoured it again the minute I could.For those with weak stomachs and sensitive ears, this book is not for you! There is gritty language, sexual themes and an abundance of graphic violence. This book is a dash of The Lord of the Flies, The Hunger Games and The Maze Runner (without order, total chaos prevails), but with a stiff R rating. With that being said, I loved the colorful narrative, the realistic teen relationships and the high school social hierarchy with stereotypical cliche names and identity branding ie hair color, clothing, residence within the school, etc. All of these elements thrown together in brilliant disarray makes for an exciting, page-turning, totally believable and original story that I didn't want to ever end...I'm so glad Lex Thomas cleverly wove the makings for several sequels. It's going to be hard to wait for the next book coming out this Summer 2013.The main character in this book is David a typical HS jock that has given up on life since his mother's tragic death a year previous; he has given up on everything except for his younger brother Will, a feisty, rebellious, epileptic who is starting his freshman year of high school. David has alienated his former football team and gets in a fight with the new star football player at a party over his cheating girlfriend. Thus David starts the first day of high school a "dead man walking." However, before the first period bell can even ring on the first day of school an explosion tears away a wing of the school and the teachers suddenly die. The students soon discover the windows are covered and all exits sealed with a quarantine tent canvassing the entire school. Military enters the school to inform the students that they have been infected by a virus that won't leave their body until puberty has runs it's course. The students are deadly to the entire outside world, although a few students did escape. When the virus begins to leave their body, they are eligible for release through a sealed booth and graduate to the outside world. The military drops food and supplies once a week by helicopter, but that creates a dog eat dog environment of gross proportions.Great unique supporting characters and strong, moral main characters make for a great story. Thomas creates a crazy world that you can envision, hear and even smell and its a world that is full of terror and triumph. This is one of those books that is absolutely unforgettable!
High school is a prison. At least it feels that way when you are there. But what our slightly melodramatic youngsters can't imagine is actually being trapped in your high school, under a quarantine that literally makes your high school into a prison. In Lex Thomas's Quarantine: The Loners, you get to see just how ugly high school can be.David knew punching Sam, the star of the football team, was going to have repercussions, but he had no idea they would be so long-lasting. In a normal time, he would have had to watch his back and life would have been difficult until he graduated, but when half the school exploded and the rest was put under a mandatory, isolating quarantine, he was left to survive the insane wrath of Sam with no adults to supervise. When a kid infected with an insane virus that kills all adults instantly runs into the high school, there is no other option but to try to contain the disease by bombing the school. Unfortunately, nothing was contained and all the adults died anyway. Now hundreds of kids are left to fend for themselves with no answers, and no way to feed themselves. The military starts dropping food, but as the seniors age, they start to die the same way, by coughing up their own lungs. In order to avoid the inevitable massacre, the military creates the "graduation booth" where kids who have lost the virus from their systems can safely leave the toxic school and rejoin the rest of society. But that means there are a lot of kids stuck in the school who face years before they can leave. And we all know what happens when kids are left to their own devices for years on end... we have all read Lord of the Flies. It doesn't end well.After a year in the school, gangs have formed so kids can have some fighting chance of staying alive. Without a gang like Varsity, Pretty Ones, Nerds, Freaks, or Sluts, you can pretty much count on starving and looking over your shoulder with every move you make. Thanks to David's impulsive decision to punch Sam for fooling around with David's girlfriend, he is a wanted and shunned man, and his brother Will is guilty by association. They make do, cleaning laundry to trade since they have no chance of actually getting food in the military drops, but Will resents his lot in life. As Scraps (gang-less kids), they barely get by. But when David tries to protect a newly shunned Pretty One from being raped by a Varsity, he accidentally kills the guy and becomes more than just shunned... now he is a wanted man. When he is saved by a bunch of Scraps and Will, the Scraps have an interesting proposition. They want to form their own gang. David finally agrees when the Scraps come together an stand up to Sam for the next drop, but just because they have a gang, it doesn't mean they are safe. Because no one is safe in Quarantine.So, this was quite the story. Two man writing team Lex Hrabe and Thomas Voorhies (pen name: Lex Thomas) created a realistic, terrifying, brutal place that is exactly what you would expect. There is violence and rape and starvation and insanity and even forced "prostitution" where the Pretty Ones are forced to date Varsity in order to get their protection and food and resources. This book is ugly because this situation is ugly. A world where bullies and beasts are strongest is just survival of the fittest. And everyone else is forced to survive on the fringes. But we all know a revolution is imminent when people are scared and starving. Starving people will do anything to eat, even stand up to someone who has all the power when they are essentially powerless as one individual. But together, they can show the powers that be that there is power in numbers. This story felt so real and accurate it was incredibly disturbing. I found myself cringing with each descriptive sentence and action scene. Not because it was gratuitous. Because it was exactly what would happen if this wasn't fiction.There is an amazing depiction of the relationship between brothers, David and Will, that will ring true to any sibling relationship. They hate each other, but love one another, they want to kill each other, but won't let anyone hurt the other, they forgive but don't forget, and most of all, they compete. It was a really well executed relationship for Lex Thomas, and it will ring true for anyone with siblings. But the other characters were just as dynamic and well executed. The boy, Smudge, who preferred being a Scrap, and Dorothy, who abandoned the Scraps out of fear when they faced Sam, and even Hilary, the leader of the Pretty Ones who did what she had to in order to stay alive, but who could barely live with herself anymore. They were executed brilliantly.Since the story is so disturbing, it would probably be best for older young adults, maybe grades 10 and up. But this would be a perfect story for any reluctant reader, boys in particular. Like I said, the story is mature, so be aware of who you give it to. I can't imagine anyone with delicate sensibilities will make it more than 10 pages in this story. My one biggest critique was the difficulty keeping up with the ever-changing point of view. It switched so often it felt a little schizophrenic at times. I never really got used to it. But otherwise, you will enjoy this story if you can stomach the terrifying reality of it all! And you will walk down the halls of your school a little differently once you are finished!
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