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After the Change, only children were left alive – and once each child reached the age of fourteen, they were taken to the Meat Factory to be harvested. Gold Eye was one who managed to escape and not be caught, though his life on the run was a dangerous one. The night he was close to capture, he was rescued by a group of three, Drum, Ella and Ninde and taken back to their refuge – an old, abandoned submarine where Shade ruled, and small groups of children ventured out into the danger to search fo
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A non-stop adventure in a world where everyone over 14 years of age suddenly disappeared one night; a world that is now populated by monsters hunting for those who are left. The kids band together under the aegis of Shade, an adult computer-mind/construct, trying to survive in an extremely brutal world. Fast-paced & entertaining.
This felt outdated of this time, like a disney special from when it was written. But then on the other hand the ideas are way ahead of its time, 5-10 years.
There's no doubt Nix is a talented writer / story-teller. The world of the Overlords is well-crafted and believable; the characters who inhabit this world equally so. Still, for me, something was lacking. It's not that I didn't care about the characters because I did, but despite this I found myself skimming paragraphs towards the end just wanting the story to be over.
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Jan 23, 2014
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