Garth Nix
Paperback | Pages: 345 pages Rating: 3.9 | 11692 Users | 573 Reviews
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| Title | : | Shade's Children (Shade's Children) |
| Author | : | Garth Nix |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 345 pages |
| Published | : | September 18th 1998 by HarperTeen (first published 1997) |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Science Fiction. Fantasy. Fiction. Dystopia |
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The Key to Survival Rests in the Hands of Shade's Children If you’re lucky, you live to fight another day. In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest resulting in the construction of a machine like creature whose sole purpose is to kill. The mysterious Shade — once a man, but now more like the machines he fights — recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape. With luck, cunning, and skill, four of Shade's children come closer than any to discovering the source of the Overlords' power — and the key to their downfall. But the closer the children get, the more ruthless Shade seems to become ...Present Books Concering Shade's Children (Shade's Children)
| Original Title: | Shade's Children |
| ISBN: | 0064471969 (ISBN13: 9780064471961) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Shade's Children |
| Literary Awards: | Golden Duck Award Nominee for Young Adult (Hal Clement Award) (1998) |
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Ratings: 3.9 From 11692 Users | 573 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books Shade's Children (Shade's Children)
http://bookwayfarer.wordpress.com/201...I read this book, I believe, in junior high. It's one of those novels that sucks you into the story and doesnt let you go till you've reached the end, and then want more.It's about these kids, set in the future, when all the adults are gone. Poof, gone. And these kids are trying to survive in a world run by machines when at 12 years old you might as well kiss yourself goodbye because you're old enough to become a drone of some kind, or food. So there's a"If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible?If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?"***3.5 staritos*** I keep getting the vibe that this book would've made a great video game. Monsters, evil Overlords, runaway teens, a mysterious mentor.... it could be epic. Shade's Children tells the story of the world fifteen years after the "Change" led to the rule of the
Possibly, if this book is read in these days of popular post-apocalyptic stories, one might be tempted to throw this one in with the "ah, someone read 'Hunger Games' and wrote a book" crowd. Now, some of those books fall in the AWESOME category (DIVERGENT), but others can make someone either say, "Ooo, I love that kind of book", or "No more!". Well, luckily, "Shade's Children" was published in 1997! Ahead of the trend! Booyah! Aaaand now it's been re-released, with a new cover.Garth Nix is known
i think i read this book like when i was in grade 6 and i was scared imagining a world were i would have died in 3 years. (i was 11 at the time)Garth Nix is a FANTASTIC writer and i was hooked, i tell u HOOKED!!!! to this book till the end. It was one of the very few stand alone books that blew my mind....fantastic writing and veryyyy original considering its a dystopian and i dont usually like dystopian (after suffering from PTSD from readin fail dystopians such as Matched and Delirium) so yeh
I liked this a lot when I was a YA myself, but while I still think some parts are well done, in general I don't find Shade's Children nearly as good as the Abhorsen trilogy.One problem is the backstory -- there are some small holes and some very big ones. I mostly liked that Nix doesn't try to explain the situation very much, because it should only be a little less mysterious to the reader than it is to the protagonists; but then again, in science fiction there should at least be a pretense that
Yes. I'm reviewing a YA book. (Picture me sticking my tongue out at anyone who has a problem with this.)I've read a lot of YA as an adult, partly because of my own child, who liked to have me read the same books to discuss them, and partly because I like YA SFF. There's often an honesty, a pared down-ness to the stories that attracts me. The flip side is that some authors tend to talk down to their audience, which is depressing and disappointing. Garth Nix has never, ever done this.This is a man
My favourite individual book from Garth NIX. The plot is great! It's racy, thrilling, futuristique... and the ending made me cry it was that good!
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