Hunger by Michael Grant

"Hunger", the sequel to "Gone" by Michael Grant, picks up the story three months after the FAYZ (an event where all the teens and adults over the age of fifteen disappear, and the world is restricted by a barrier that closes off their world to the outside). The remaining members of the community form two different groups and an outside evil threatens all of them.

Some of the teens develop mutant powers that are both terrifying and destructive. As this new novel begins, the overriding problem is that the food supply is dwindling, and the threads of the alliances that some of the teens have formed are unraveling. An evil presence also lurks from an outlying mine and seems to call them like a spider laying out its web.

This book is a true horror story. It's been called Stephen King for young adults and I think that it is an apt comparison. You'll be shocked and at the edge of your seat, as in the preceding novel, Gone, for the same thrill ride. Not for the faint hearted, but for the rest of you, open the book and enjoy. My recommendation though, read it in the daylight only.