Interview with authors lex thomas from the 2012 ala conference anaheim, ca. See the complete quarantine series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. First in the quarantine trilogy, this debut novel from thomas, a pseudonym for firsttime writers lex hrabe and thomas voorhies, is a violent. The loners, is the sluts, an allfemale gang thats tough as nails. The loners quarantine book 1 and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. 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.
As original as the hunger games, set within the walls of a high school exactly like yours. Quarantine the loners book information quarantinebook. Lex thomas better comes up with something really, really awesome in a bad way for hilary. To say i was excited to see how it would all wrap up is an understatement. I hope that i can excite my students to read the novel.
There was an explosion that let out a lethal virus that lives inside of teenagers. The saints quarantine book 2 kindle edition by lex thomas. In the third and final quarantine book, david and will are alive. They could of saved the book by adding an extra hundred pages instead of skipping 2 months, i wanted to see david leave, find his dad, i wanted to read about where lucy went and how sh e got there. Laura vazques, media professor at northern illinois university, talks about the meaning of the word slut, and the modern connotations of the word. In fact, the burnouts was one of my most anticipated books of the year. Not have the two events summed up in the last 10 pages. Students in grades 8 through 12 attended the event at niu and participated in an immersive field trip experience with handson stemsteam activities. I would certainly take a closer look at anything by lex thomas after reading quarantine. The other books were nearly 400 pages each, this one was lacking that extra hundred pages.
This book never lets plausibility get in the way of objectificationone character plans a grandiose gentlemens club in the wartorn high school, and female sexuality is constantly bartered. Near the end, thomas lex hrabe and thomas voorhies collective pen name finally remembers the first novels only successful element. The loners read online free from your pc or mobile. In this frighteningly dark and captivating novel, a 2012 booklist editors choice, lex thomas locks readers inside a school.
Would you be willing to try another book from lex thomas. A cross between the gone series and lord of the want to read. In the fourth installment of the quarantine, lex thomas delivers two fatally intertwined stories about love and longing, loneliness and hope, which merge in a thundering conclusion where the fate of the entire infected zone hangs in the balance. Does it sound like the opinion of a normal student. The quarantine book series by lex thomas includes books quarantine. Lex thomas books read online free free vampire books. Quarantine survivors are highlighted in these photos from the northern illinois university stem read event based on the book quarantine by lex thomas. The burnouts is the third and final book in the quarantine series. Movie trailer to the book quarantine the loners by lex thomas. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting.
The burnouts quarantine by lex thomas january 1, 2016. Read information about the author lex thomas is the pen name for the writing team of lex hrabe and thomas voorhies. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. All the students are infected with a virus that makes them deadly to adults. The starred quarantine series continues with the giant, the story of gonzalo, the axwielding loner, and his search for his lost love in the deadly infected zone. Lucy is the last of the trinity left inside, where hilary will exact a wicked revenge before taking over mckinley. This book is wellpaced and there are constant twists, turns, and action. Lex thomas quarantine, the loners, is mainly about two brothers, david and will, who are trapped inside of their high school. Lex hrabe was a drama geek in high school as well as student body president, but in spite of his affiliations, he probably wouldnt have lasted a week if his school had been quarantined. A bus crashes into the exit doors though, and it turns out that it. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the saints quarantine book 2. Exclusive interveiw with lex thomas author of quarantine. Have you listened to any of joe jamesons other performances.
In this frighteningly dark and captivating novel, lex thomas locks readers inside a school where kids dont fight to be popular, they fight to stay alive. So, since this was sams time, i just figure the next book will be about hilary. Lex thomas locks readers inside a school where kids dont fight to be popular, they fight to stay alive. Their friendship developed as they tried to blow each others minds with clips from bizarre movies. Lex thomas is the pen name for the writing team of lex hrabe and thomas voorhies. But since weve got almost an entire year to wait, here are a few other books some new, some classics that could help keep you entertained while you wait. First the loners, then the saints, and finally the burnouts told the saga of david, lucy, and wills story of survival inside mckinley high school where their story ends, his journey begins. The duo lex thomas have written a series that i will love and remember forever. The loners by lex thomas, then chances are youre hankering for the sequel. 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 bmovies. Kami garcia, new york times bestselling coauthor of the beautiful. It will instantly kill young children and adults that are anywhere near this highly contagious virus. The saints quarantine book 2 by lex thomas characters. He has to continuously fight for his life in the search for his lost girlfriend.
The book ends with david getting out of the tunnel but the tunnel collapsing before the rest of the loners can make it out so david takes off into the outside world to get help, and we see a group of kids bust down the front doors to the school so everyone quarantined can escape, saying the soldiers are. About lex thomas website, facebook, twitter, goodreads. First in the quarantine trilogy, this debut novel from thomas, a pseudonym for firsttime writers lex hrabe and thomas voorhies, is a violent and somewhat campy highconcept mashup, tossing walter hills the warriors into a high school setting and seeding it with elements of lord of the flies. Yet, with great expectation great disappointment sometimes follows. The book continues with the story of a character that was once a background character named gonzalo. Lex thomas is the author team made up of lex hrabe and thomas voorhies.
575 1474 1048 797 457 478 711 906 426 1144 978 865 450 246 226 268 1460 695 1138 541 381 341 1563 1527 825 9 872 274 1284 776 1606 1321 40 1564 303 648 495 743 1446 1028 149 1087 19