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Violence
A lot
Extreme violence throughout including biological horror — creatures emerging from within children's bodies
Language
Some
Some profanity throughout
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild romantic content
Substance Use
Barely any
Some substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Strong psychological content: the biological horror element is genuinely disturbing; the series' accumulated darkness reaches new depths
What this book is about
The fourth Gone novel introduces a new threat — a plague that makes its victims cough up their lungs, alongside parasitic creatures that emerge from infected children. Michael Grant adds biological horror to the series' already extreme survival violence and psychological darkness, in what remains one of YA fiction's most relentlessly extreme series.
Notes for sensitive readers
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Extreme violence including biological horror — creatures emerging from bodies
Children in life-threatening danger repeatedly
The series' characteristically extreme content continues
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