
The sequel picks up moments later, with infected teens streaming out of the newly breached high school until a school bus smashes into the opening, once again walling them in. But as enjoyable as were Emmy Laybourne's Monument 14 and Dayna Lorentz's No Safety in Numbers, it was Thomas' Quarantine: The Loners that blew the doors off the joint with a dirty bomb of sex and violence. "The craziest thing about 2012's rash of teens-in-quarantine books was that all of them were good. The Saints brings readers back to the dark and deadly halls of McKinley High and the Quarantine series.

Soon after, though, the world inside McKinley takes a startling turn for the worse, and Will and Lucy will have to fight harder than ever to survive. An epic party on the quad full of real food and drinks, where kids hook up and actually interact with members of other gangs seemed to signal a new, easier existence. As a new group of teens enters the school and gains popularity, Will and Lucy join new gangs. When the doors finally open, Will and Lucy think their nightmare is finished. McKinley High has been a battleground for eighteen months since a virus outbreak led to a military quarantine of the school.


Nothing was worse than being locked in-until they opened the door. A cross between the Gone series and Lord of the Flies, Quarantine #2: The Saints continues this frenetically paced and scary young adult series that illustrates just how deadly high school can be.
