Reading Journey

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Author	Michael Grant
Publisher	HarperCollins
Isbn	9780062202895
Percent	99.9%

Highlights

Date	Chapter	Percent	Color	Quote	Note
July 08, 2023 16:34	The Thanks	94.4%	#DFC	You are now free to leave the FAYZ.
July 08, 2023 16:32	Aftermath 3: Three Months After the Fayz	92.6%	#DFC	Orc, Dahra, Duck Zhang, Howard, E.Z., Jack, Brianna, and Little Pete.
July 08, 2023 16:31	Aftermath 3: Three Months After the Fayz	92.5%	#DFC	Edilio ended up signing autographs.
July 08, 2023 16:31	Aftermath 3: Three Months After the Fayz	92.3%	#DFC	Three of them committed suicide. An unknown number found their way to alcohol and drugs. None were unscathed.
July 08, 2023 16:30	Aftermath 3: Three Months After the Fayz	92.1%	#DFC	Then there was a judicial panel that took statements from eminent scientists and concluded that the FAYZ was in fact a separate universe and thus not covered under California law.
July 08, 2023 16:26	Aftermath 2	90.1%	#DFC	“Mama, sit down, okay? I have something kind of big to tell you.”	ROGER IS ALIVEEEEEEEE
July 08, 2023 16:25	Aftermath 2	89.6%	#DFC	He was a big neon finger pointing at the family of undocumented workers.
July 08, 2023 16:23	Aftermath 1	88.3%	#DFC	“Those are kids buried there. Some of them were torn apart, you know. By coyotes. By . . . by bad people. Shot. Crushed. Like that. Some of those kids in the ground there couldn’t take it, the hunger and the fear . . . some of those kids out there had to be cut down from the ropes they used to hang themselves. Early on, when we still had any animals? I had a crew go out and hunt down cats. Cats and dogs and rats. Kill them. Other kids to skin them . . . cook them up.”
July 08, 2023 16:23	Aftermath 1	88.3%	#DFC	Yeah. So don’t mess with the graves. Okay? Other than that, we’re good to go.”
July 08, 2023 16:21	Aftermath 1	87.4%	#DFC	He was going to be a high school freshman? Really?
July 08, 2023 16:20	Aftermath 1	86.7%	#DFC	He’s in hiding. Worried about la migra coming for him and his family.”
July 08, 2023 16:18	Aftermath 1	86.4%	#DFC	“Tapioca beats rat,” Diana said.
July 08, 2023 16:18	Aftermath 1	86.2%	#DFC	crimes ranging from simple assault to murder.
July 08, 2023 16:18	Aftermath 1	86.0%	#DFC	, as they were now known, would be prosecuted for
July 08, 2023 16:17	The Toll	85.8%	#DFC	THREE HUNDRED AND thirty-two kids between the age of one month and fourteen years had been confined within the FAYZ.
July 08, 2023 16:17	The Toll	85.8%	#DFC	One hundred and thirty-six lay dead.
July 08, 2023 16:17	The Toll	85.8%	#DFC	It was a fatality rate of just over 40 percent.
July 08, 2023 16:16	Thirty-One: 11 Minutes	84.7%	#DFC	One hundred and seventy-one people—babies in arms, toddlers, kids—ran and stumbled into the arms of waiting parents. They ran to be scooped up by waiting paramedics.
July 08, 2023 16:15	Thirty-One: 11 Minutes	84.4%	#DFC	“That was a blaze of glory.”
July 08, 2023 16:15	Thirty-One: 11 Minutes	84.2%	#DFC	He wanted a blaze of glory. He deserves an audience.”
July 08, 2023 16:14	Thirty: 25 Minutes	83.3%	#DFC	You’re giving me a good memory to go out on, aren’t you, Pete?
July 08, 2023 16:13	Thirty: 25 Minutes	82.8%	#DFC	“Now, Little Pete,” Caine said. “Right now.”
July 08, 2023 16:12	Thirty: 25 Minutes	82.4%	#DFC	It blew him apart
July 08, 2023 16:12	Thirty: 25 Minutes	82.4%	#DFC	Charles Merriman, long known as Orc, tried to rise, and instead fell dead.
July 08, 2023 16:12	Thirty: 25 Minutes	82.2%	#DFC	And then the missile exploded against the barrier.
July 08, 2023 16:11	Thirty: 25 Minutes	82.0%	#DFC	Orc hit Gaia like a truck.
July 08, 2023 16:08	Twenty-Nine: 42 Minutes	80.3%	#DFC	“I’ll kill. I’ll kill. That’s enough. It’s enough! I won’t murder!”
July 08, 2023 16:08	Twenty-Nine: 42 Minutes	80.1%	#DFC	. I don’t think I have the strength to try again, man: do it for me,”
July 08, 2023 16:07	Twenty-Nine: 42 Minutes	79.9%	#DFC	Dekka lay still.
July 08, 2023 16:05	Twenty-Nine: 42 Minutes	78.8%	#DFC	One misdirected bullet hit him in the lower back. His legs went out from under him. He dropped Sam, then fell atop him.
July 08, 2023 16:05	Twenty-Nine: 42 Minutes	78.8%	#DFC	Jack who had never wanted anything but to play with his computers.
July 08, 2023 16:03	Twenty-Eight: 1 Hours, 10 Minutes	77.7%	#DFC	“And because I want to write the end of my own story.”
July 08, 2023 16:03	Twenty-Eight: 1 Hours, 10 Minutes	77.6%	#DFC	I can’t let that boy save the world all alone. I’d never live it down.”
July 08, 2023 16:03	Twenty-Eight: 1 Hours, 10 Minutes	77.4%	#DFC	Caine . . . No. No. We do this together.”
July 08, 2023 16:02	Twenty-Eight: 1 Hours, 10 Minutes	77.2%	#DFC	“Caine. Caine. What are you doing?”
July 08, 2023 16:01	Twenty-Eight: 1 Hours, 10 Minutes	76.3%	#DFC	Astrid jerked her face forward, clamped her teeth down on Drake’s nose, and bit down as hard as she could.
July 08, 2023 16:00	Twenty-Eight: 1 Hours, 10 Minutes	76.1%	#DFC	Is that what you hate? Is that the sickness in you?”
July 08, 2023 16:00	Twenty-Eight: 1 Hours, 10 Minutes	75.9%	#DFC	“Who did you watch being hurt?” she asked, desperate to engage him, stall, distract . . .
July 08, 2023 15:58	Twenty-Seven: 1 Hours, 29 Minutes	74.5%	#DFC	I want to understand your kind
July 08, 2023 15:57	Twenty-Seven: 1 Hours, 29 Minutes	74.1%	#DFC	“No death for you. No, you’re going to come along and watch.”
July 08, 2023 15:55	Twenty-Seven: 1 Hours, 29 Minutes	73.4%	#DFC	? Don’t all living things have a right to survive?”
July 08, 2023 15:55	Twenty-Seven: 1 Hours, 29 Minutes	73.3%	#DFC	the barrier came down he would probably be deported to Honduras. Thanks for your heroism; now get out of the country, kid.
July 08, 2023 15:55	Twenty-Seven: 1 Hours, 29 Minutes	73.3%	#DFC	Quinn.
July 08, 2023 15:55	Twenty-Seven: 1 Hours, 29 Minutes	73.3%	#DFC	And Lana, what hadn’t that girl been through? Dekka, fearless, passionate Dekka, his right hand, his companion in battle, the sister he’d never had.
July 08, 2023 15:54	Twenty-Seven: 1 Hours, 29 Minutes	72.9%	#DFC	So damned sorry you can’t begin to understand how sorry. Sorry.
July 08, 2023 15:53	Twenty-Seven: 1 Hours, 29 Minutes	72.5%	#DFC	Sam didn’t hurry. He knew where he was going. He wasn’t happy about going there. No rush.
July 08, 2023 15:52	Twenty-Seven: 1 Hours, 29 Minutes	72.4%	#DFC	“Take care of Astrid for me. Try to keep her safe and don’t let her follow me.”
July 08, 2023 15:28	Twenty-Seven: 1 Hours, 29 Minutes	72.0%	#DFC	“Hello, Astrid,” Drake said. And she lost consciousness.
July 08, 2023 15:27	Twenty-Six: 2 Hours, 56 Minutes	71.6%	#DFC	He was Jesus with a whip, an unkillable Satan coming with smoke and fire to destroy
July 08, 2023 15:26	Twenty-Six: 2 Hours, 56 Minutes	70.9%	#DFC	“Don’t go out in a blaze of glory, Sam.” “Don’t nail yourself to a cross,” he said.
July 08, 2023 15:25	Twenty-Six: 2 Hours, 56 Minutes	70.6%	#DFC	And each time I see that maybe we can beat the gaiaphage. But not if she has my power. That’s the trick here. Would that be irony?”
July 08, 2023 15:22	Twenty-Six: 2 Hours, 56 Minutes	69.1%	#DFC	Dekka,” Sam said, putting his arms around her, “we will never be cried out.”
July 08, 2023 15:20	Twenty-Six: 2 Hours, 56 Minutes	68.8%	#DFC	“I’m not Smokey the Bear,”
July 08, 2023 15:15	Twenty-Five: 4 Hours, 44 Minutes	66.4%	#DFC	So it was not then, not at that moment, that Abana would see her daughter, Dahra, floating facedown in the lake.
July 08, 2023 15:14	Twenty-Five: 4 Hours, 44 Minutes	65.5%	#DFC	monstrous and evil children, and the idea that they should be allowed to walk out of that satanic place and infect decent God-fearing people with
July 08, 2023 15:13	Twenty-Five: 4 Hours, 44 Minutes	65.0%	#DFC	Why had she forced him to admit his feelings? Women. Didn’t they know that emotions were meant to be suppressed?
July 08, 2023 15:08	Twenty-Four: 14 Hours, 22 Minutes	64.8%	#DFC	Take me, you little freak.
July 08, 2023 15:07	Twenty-Four: 14 Hours, 22 Minutes	64.6%	#DFC	“You think they would kill her?”
July 08, 2023 15:04	Twenty-Four: 14 Hours, 22 Minutes	63.0%	#DFC	Sam would die, and he would die knowing he had failed to save Astrid.
July 08, 2023 15:03	Twenty-Four: 14 Hours, 22 Minutes	62.5%	#DFC	It was not a good idea to lust after a god. Even worse to imagine the whip coming down on her—
July 08, 2023 15:01	Twenty-Three: 15 Hours, 57 Minutes	61.8%	#DFC	“She was a good person, Dahra,” Lana said.
July 08, 2023 15:00	Twenty-Three: 15 Hours, 57 Minutes	61.0%	#DFC	when it gets down to the endgame, everyone just wants to buy another five minutes for themselves and their . . . and the people they care about.”
July 08, 2023 15:00	Twenty-Three: 15 Hours, 57 Minutes	60.9%	#DFC	We all try to stay alive. Even though in the end we all die.”
July 08, 2023 14:59	Twenty-Three: 15 Hours, 57 Minutes	60.7%	#DFC	Diana, if I’m dead and Sam’s dead and Dekka and Jack are dead, the gaiaphage isn’t very dangerous
July 08, 2023 14:56	Twenty-Three: 15 Hours, 57 Minutes	59.2%	#DFC	She was badass.”
July 08, 2023 14:55	Twenty-Two: 17 Hours, 25 Minutes	58.9%	#DFC	“I wish that was true, my friend,” Quinn said.
July 08, 2023 14:54	Twenty-Two: 17 Hours, 25 Minutes	58.7%	#DFC	Still holding Brianna, Dekka buried her face in Edilio’s shoulder and sobbed uncontrollably.
July 08, 2023 14:54	Twenty-Two: 17 Hours, 25 Minutes	58.7%	#DFC	“It don’t matter if people see me. Please let us out of here. This place is too sad.”
July 08, 2023 14:53	Twenty-Two: 17 Hours, 25 Minutes	58.3%	#DFC	she felt Gaia’s hand pressing palm-out against her heart and knew . . .
July 08, 2023 14:53	Twenty-Two: 17 Hours, 25 Minutes	58.3%	#DFC	Brianna’s body fell limp. Suddenly so small.
July 08, 2023 14:51	Twenty-One: 18 Hours, 57 Minutes	57.6%	#DFC	“The Lord is my shepherd.”
July 08, 2023 14:51	Twenty-One: 18 Hours, 57 Minutes	57.6%	#DFC	“Mmmm. Well, then, I guess I’d better kill you, just to be safe.”
July 08, 2023 14:48	Twenty-One: 18 Hours, 57 Minutes	56.6%	#DFC	Quinn. Hurt bad. On highway. Reach me from that little cove if u can. Sam.
July 08, 2023 14:48	Twenty-One: 18 Hours, 57 Minutes	56.2%	#DFC	“Quinn.”
July 08, 2023 14:47	Twenty-One: 18 Hours, 57 Minutes	55.8%	#DFC	“Taylor?”
July 08, 2023 14:44	Twenty-One: 18 Hours, 57 Minutes	54.9%	#DFC	It’s no longer your choice. I’m drafting you.”
July 08, 2023 14:40	Nineteen: 25 Hours, 29 Minutes	53.3%	#DFC	Please let him kill her.
July 08, 2023 14:40	Nineteen: 25 Hours, 29 Minutes	53.3%	#DFC	As they drew nearer, Gaia flicked a finger and knocked Sam onto his back. His head hit pavement with a sickening crack.
July 08, 2023 14:39	Nineteen: 25 Hours, 29 Minutes	52.8%	#DFC	He cried out in pain, struggled, but did not ris
July 08, 2023 14:37	Nineteen: 25 Hours, 29 Minutes	52.2%	#DFC	Tell them all, whatever it takes, Astrid. Kill it!”
July 08, 2023 14:36	Nineteen: 25 Hours, 29 Minutes	52.1%	#DFC	Hello, Darkness, my old friend. The words of an old song. Hello, Darkness.
July 08, 2023 14:28	Eighteen: 27 Hours, 13 Minutes	51.0%	#DFC	. I’ll die trying to keep people alive. But I won’t do murder.”
July 08, 2023 14:24	Eighteen: 27 Hours, 13 Minutes	50.4%	#DFC	We’re a bunch of sheep waiting for the tiger,” Albert snapped. “There’s only one question: are any of us going to walk out of here alive?”
July 08, 2023 14:12	Eighteen: 27 Hours, 13 Minutes	49.4%	#DFC	Like you, Darkness, just like you
July 08, 2023 14:03	Eighteen: 27 Hours, 13 Minutes	48.3%	#DFC	Gaia decided she liked yelling music best.
July 08, 2023 14:02	Seventeen: 29 Hours, 24 Minutes	47.9%	#DFC	—I like to hope, anyway, that he found the strength to . . . But he was always a troubled boy. Especially after my son died. The stepfather . . . young Drake’s stepfather . . .” He blew out a breath. “But I don’t know and you don’t know.”
July 08, 2023 12:52	Seventeen: 29 Hours, 24 Minutes	45.1%	#DFC	No way Roger had been killed. That wasn’t fair.
July 08, 2023 01:15	Sixteen: 35 Hours, 33 Minutes	43.6%	#DFC	“Who the hell are you?”
July 08, 2023 01:10	Fifteen: 38 Hours, 58 Minutes	41.1%	#DFC	In the end, three kids stayed behind. Astrid didn’t have the energy or the certainty to compel them. And she was fairly sure that she herself, and her little band of wanderers, would also be dead before they ever reached Perdido Beach.
July 08, 2023 01:08	Fifteen: 38 Hours, 58 Minutes	40.9%	#DFC	To die with the end perhaps in sight . . .
July 08, 2023 01:08	Fifteen: 38 Hours, 58 Minutes	40.8%	#DFC	At least seventy kids had been killed. A quarter of the population of the FAYZ.
July 08, 2023 01:07	Fifteen: 38 Hours, 58 Minutes	40.2%	#DFC	Half her hair was gone. One side of her face was cherry red.
July 08, 2023 01:06	Fourteen: 39 Hours, 40 Minutes	39.9%	#DFC	It was an undignified, pain-racked retreat, but no one came after her.
July 08, 2023 01:05	Fourteen: 39 Hours, 40 Minutes	39.7%	#DFC	“Who am I? I’m the Breeze, bitch!”
July 08, 2023 01:03	Fourteen: 39 Hours, 40 Minutes	38.8%	#DFC	Like skeet shooting. Gaia wasn’t just killing: she was playing.
July 08, 2023 01:03	Fourteen: 39 Hours, 40 Minutes	38.8%	#DFC	was two feet on the other side, and was incinerated as Roger cried out in horror.
July 08, 2023 01:02	Fourteen: 39 Hours, 40 Minutes	38.4%	#DFC	And then she was torn apart by the explosion.
July 08, 2023 00:54	Thirteen: 40 Hours, 3 Minutes	36.6%	#DFC	People always said kids were resilient, so obviously adults were less so. She wondered how much differently things would have gone if it had been three-hundred-plus adults trapped in the FAYZ with the gaiaphage and dangerous mutants—human and nonhuma
July 08, 2023 00:51	Thirteen: 40 Hours, 3 Minutes	36.1%	#DFC	‘Kill Them All, Let God Sort Them Out.’”
July 08, 2023 00:33	Twelve: 44 Hours	33.9%	#DFC	will I be? I need Nemesis to die, Diana. When he dies, the barrier will fall. When he dies, I will be free to emerge. I am ready. I am seeing this place and realizing that it is small. Look at the world out there.”
July 08, 2023 00:32	Twelve: 44 Hours	33.8%	#DFC	Wait until he’s hungry enough that the smell of his own cooked flesh begins to . . .
July 08, 2023 00:23	Eleven: 52 Hours, 10 Minutes	31.4%	#DFC	Alberco: Feeding your kids. Albert Hillsborough, CEO.
July 08, 2023 00:22	Eleven: 52 Hours, 10 Minutes	30.9%	#DFC	“Douche.” “What?” “I was coughing,” Quinn muttered.
July 08, 2023 00:20	Eleven: 52 Hours, 10 Minutes	30.7%	#DFC	“I’m used to being criticized, everyone resenting me because I’m successful,” Albert said. “It’s probably inevitable.”
July 07, 2023 18:22	Seven: 71 Hours, 12 Minutes	20.5%	#DFC	In a Wall Street Journal poll, 28 percent of respondents said that the FAYZ and everyone in it should be destroyed.
July 07, 2023 13:14	Five: 74 Hours, 41 Minutes	13.6%	#DFC	Always remember that: people are faithless, backstabbing, weak, creepy, stupid, lazy idiots.”
July 07, 2023 01:28	Four: 76 Hours, 52 Minutes	11.5%	#DFC	This ends with us walking out of this nightmare together. You and me, Sam.”
July 07, 2023 01:26	Three: 77 Hours, 37 Minutes	10.8%	#DFC	Don’t hit me again, he thought. Or else.
July 07, 2023 01:25	Three: 77 Hours, 37 Minutes	10.6%	#DFC	Gaia made her little teeth-baring smile and said, “Food.”
July 07, 2023 01:18	Three: 77 Hours, 37 Minutes	9.0%	#DFC	I cannot . . . reach . . . her power
July 07, 2023 01:18	Three: 77 Hours, 37 Minutes	9.0%	#DFC	“That’s why you didn’t let Drake kill Caine. It’s why we ran away. You can’t start by killing Caine or Sam or Brianna; if you do, you lose their powers.”
July 07, 2023 01:16	Three: 77 Hours, 37 Minutes	8.4%	#DFC	You’re a nearsighted devil child? You need glasses?”
July 07, 2023 00:24	Two: 78 Hours, 26 Minutes	4.5%	#DFC	A bunch. Kids have been dying all over the place. This isn’t Disneyland.
July 07, 2023 00:20	One: 88 Hours, 39 Minutes	2.9%	#DFC	The end is the best part of any story. The end.
July 07, 2023 00:14	One: 88 Hours, 39 Minutes	2.3%	#DFC	“The end is the best part of any story,” Gaia whispered, talking to no one that Diana could see. “The end.”

Circulation

Date	Activity	Details	Library
July 07, 2023 00:01	Tagged	🧾	York County Libraries
July 07, 2023 00:01	Borrowed		York County Libraries