false<![CDATA[Shade's Children]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1193136535m/47626.jpg4762611In the brutal world of <I>Shade's Children</I>, your 14th birthday is your last. Malevolent Overlords rule the earth, directing hideous, humanoid creatures to harvest the brains and muscles of teens for use in engineering foul beasts to fight senseless wars. Young Gold-Eye escapes this horrific fate, fleeing the dormitories before his Sad Birthday. He is rescued from certain doom by other refugees who live in an abandoned submarine and work for Shade, a strange, computer-generated adult. Shade provides food and shelter in exchange for information that the children gather on dangerous forays into Overlord territory. But what does Shade really want? He is a sworn enemy of the Overlords, but his use of the children to gain knowledge and power seems uncaring and ruthless. Finally, Gold-Eye and his new friends set out to destroy the Overlords--with or without the enigmatic, dangerous Shade. Garth Nix, author of <i>Sabriel</i>, blends suspense, action, and high emotion in this excellent, fast-moving science-fiction story. 4112631997Shade's Childrentotal:1133|5:336|4:367|3:312|2:95|1:23|1133429715358051falsefalseSun Nov 30 18:34:45 -0800 2008Sun Nov 30 19:04:08 -0800 2008100falsefalseTue Jan 27 08:46:26 -0800 2009Tue Jan 27 10:26:28 -0800 2009
By Garth Nix
345pp. New York, New York
Harper Collins Publishers
ISBN 0 06 447196 9
The Overlords have taken over the world and the only people that can do anything about it are an organization of children lead by a part robot called Shade. Apparently...more...]]>
50falsefalseTue Nov 25 13:58:12 -0800 2008Tue Nov 25 13:58:41 -0800 2008 The book takes place in a futuristic setting. One day all of the people over the age of 14 just disappear leaving behind nothing but children. Sh...more...]]>
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Shade's Children was heartbreakingly sad and clever. This book is not a pick-me-up but I do think that it is original and interesting. However, fans of the Old Kingdom beware, this is very different from his other bo...more...]]>
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Old Kingdom Trilogy, and was hoping to find more that he had written. And this really did ace it.
Shade's Children is set in a dystopia setting, perhaps more modern than not, as the technology of present day is ...more...]]>
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Superior Saturday (Keys to the Kingdom #6), so I picked up Shade's Children for a break from heavier reading. It isn't a stellar example of what Nix can do, though it is sufficiently entertaining to carry itself. Compared to his other stand-alone novels, the c...more...]]>
50falsefalseTue Feb 12 00:00:00 -0800 2008Sat Oct 04 13:05:48 -0700 2008Thu Jan 22 11:50:08 -0800 2009 The plot… the characters, I fell in love with all, form shy little gold eye to the feisty Ella, I truly was engrossed with the chemistry and the realism with what each was portra...more...]]>
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30falsefalseSat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009Sat Jun 20 09:46:35 -0700 2009Sat Jun 20 09:52:09 -0700 2009 Garth Nix wrote Sabriel and Lireal, which are great books. This lacks the depth those have and s...more...]]>
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this is the book I keep coming back to.
After book 3 (Wednesday) I grew to really d...more...]]>
40falsefalseThu Dec 25 13:01:33 -0800 2008Thu Dec 25 13:26:04 -0800 200850falsefalseWed Nov 26 16:55:45 -0800 2008Wed Nov 26 18:21:25 -0800 2008 Perfect amount of blood&gore