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Shade's Children
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Every single person over 14 has disappeared. When strange humanoid aliens take over it's up to Shade and his children to save us.
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Average Rating based on
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(4.00)
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(5.00)
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(4.40)
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Last Update:
August
27, 2010
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(Review ID: 142)
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Although Shade's Children has it's good and bad it was a fun read., September 13, 2009
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Reviewer: kiwidog from Newark, Delaware
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Pros:
A unique disaster leads to a good backround.
Cons:
A bit hard to visualize characters.
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Shade’s Children
Written by Garth Nix
Report by Victor ArriazaA world without parents might be a child’s dream, but in Shade’s children it is a horrible nightmare. In one second every single person over the age of 14 disappeared from earth. Almost the entire population wiped out in a second. A few days later creatures started to appear. Although they appeared human they had no will of their own. Driven by the relentless Overlords they rounded up the kid's and put them in camps. Once the children were 14 they were brought to the meat factory. A gruesome place where the kid’s bodies and were used to create more creatures for the overlords ritual battles. One reason this book really entranced me was the almost apocalyptic world. It is different from other stories because a large portion of people still live. Nobody was killed the grownups were teleported somewhere. The book also explores who kids would react on their own and how artificial intelligence might consider it's self to be a human. What I didn't like about this book is that it never told what happened to the parents nor did they come back after the overlords were defeated.Over all this was a very exciting book. Fast moving plot and in between chapters it would have recordings that one of the characters took of people talking so that you could get to know them better. I would recommend this book to anyone who liked fantasy or to someone who likes apocalypse books.
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