The Giant

by Lex Thomas

Overview

In the violent early days of the quarantine, Gonzalo joins a gang of thieves who live in the ductwork of McKinley High School. There he falls in love with Sasha, but as he grows too big to fit, he is forced to leave without her.

A year later, he scours the infected zone for her. No matter how many murderers, puncture wounds, or militia he has to survive, Gonzalo can't give up on Sasha.

In the fourth installment of the Quarantine series, Lex Thomas delivers two intertwined stories about love and longing, which merge in a conclusion where the fate of the entire infected zone hangs in the balance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781541538467
Publisher:	Lerner Publishing Group
Publication date:	08/01/2018
Series:	Quarantine Series , #4
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 1.20(d)
Lexile:	750L (what's this?)
Age Range:	14 - 15 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] solid choice for mature readers seeking morally ambivalent, lawless dystopias."—Booklist Online

From the Publisher

2016-06-01
The story of a supporting character from the first novel in the Quarantine series adds a fourth book to the trilogy.Gonzalo (whose ambiguous racial markers might read as Latino) was the muscle for the Loners clique, leaving it only to return to the infected zone for his girlfriend, Sasha. The bulk of the novel uses a rigid alternating-chapter structure that switches between his search in the present and his experiences during the events of The Loners (2012). The past storyline reveals that, before a three-month growth spurt turned Gonzalo into a hulk, he was small enough that he fell in with a secret clique, the Mice, who stole from the others. Besides that, it effectively retreads the previous book, treating a barely seen romance based on physical attraction like an epic love. In the present, Gonzalo's struggles to find Sasha force him to team up with a treacherous old enemy, who frequently calls Gonzalo dumb (the text supports the antagonist's interpretation of Gonzalo's intelligence). The tensionless wild goose chase is marked by gross-out gore in lieu of suspense, which matches the faux-edgy tone evoked by a fetishization of nonconsensual sexuality (which receives just as much attention as the lovers' relationship). Only one twist near the end works, and only then because the worldbuilding is so sketchy. Quarantine this pointless book. (Science fiction. 16-18)

Kirkus Reviews