The Burnouts (Quarantine Series #3)

by Lex Thomas

Overview

Readers of The Maze Runner and Divergent will devour this dark survival series that's Lord of the Flies in a 21st-century high school setting.

In the third Quarantine book, David and Will are alive...but on the outside of McKinley High. Lucy is the last of the trinity left inside, where Hilary will exact a deadly revenge before taking over McKinley and bringing one final reign of terror to the school before the doors open for good. But the outside world is just as dangerous for carriers of the virus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781606843390
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/2014
Series:	Quarantine Series , #3
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	752,272
Lexile:	HL700L (what's this?)
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

Lex Thomas is the pen name for the writing team of Lex Hrabe and Thomas Voorhies, who met in a writers' group and bonded over their mutual fascination with B-movies. Visit them at www.lex-thomas.com.

Editorial Reviews

"[A]s a capper to this undersung 'psycho soap opera,' it sure does its dirty job." —starred, Booklist

From the Publisher

2014-05-19
The final installment of Thomas' gross-out Quarantine series.Will has escaped the school and reunited with his brother, David. After a short, solitary quarantine, Will's pronounced virus-free and brought into the parent-run operation that feeds and protects the school. Back inside the school, Lucy's clique, the Sluts, blames her for the disastrous fight between the Sluts and Saints. They kick her out, and once again, the plot centers on the difficulties faced by a character who is clique-less, at the social ladder's bottom rung. Lucy's complication, however, is an unplanned pregnancy. When word about Lucy's hardships comes to Will and David, Will sneaks back in to rescue her, equipped with a gas mask whose filter is nearly used up. David chases after to save him from the virus, and the love triangle is re-established. Their race against clogged filters keeps the plot moving quickly. Meanwhile, Lucy's found a new clique, the Burnouts. Seeking a renewable drug source, Burnouts ferment their own waste to get high on the fumes and masturbate. So shocking it's funny, poop's refreshing for readers numbed by the edgy-for-the-sake-of-edgy previous violence and rampant prostitution. Meanwhile, David's ex, Hilary (a cardboard evil-lunatic villain), finds a gun. The ending, of course, offers enough death to appease the fan base.By far, the fastest and funniest of the series. (Science fiction. 16-18)

Kirkus Reviews