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Summary: Amazing!
Review: This is the most fun I've ever gotten out of reading a book, and I'm a Jock! I cant believe this book hasn't won more awards! Garth combines everything a teen would want in a book:action, survival,suspense,love, it's an amazing combo! WOW!
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Summary: My Review
Review: Shades Children was an awesome book, full of action. Every page has a new adventure awaiting, and a new surprise. I love this book because its given a look into what the future could be like, most likely not, but its cool to hear someone elses point of view of the future. I definetly recomend this book to anyone who likes fantasy and stuff. And also if anyone has read either Lirael or Sabriel, youll wanna read Shade's Children too. Its better then any of the books that Garth Nix has ever written.
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Summary: Powerful Teen Sci-Fi!
Review: This is definitly one of the best books I have ever read. It is so original and imaginitive...yet so real. It really made me think about the qualities I have as a human being. In the story, on the Sad Birthday ( the 14th birthday), the children are taken to the Meat Factory to have their brains and muscle removed for the Overlords creatures. These creatures are then devided into 7 armies, where they fight each other for the Overlords' sick passtime. Give yourself a whole day to read this (and start in the morning!), because it is so annoyingly suspenseful to HAVE to go to sleep before you can read the next chapter. I give this book 5 stars for, as I said, the orginial and imaginitive content, and because I literally could not put it down! THIS IS AN AMAZING BOOK!!!
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Summary: Change of Pace
Review: I have read both Sabriel and Lirael by Garth Nix and thoroughly loved them. This book is very different than the other books Nix has written. The change of style is refreshing as well as interesting. The characters are well-developed and there is an interesting blurb at the beginning of each chapter-it didn't make sense at first but you get into it! A great read!
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Summary: Chilling...
Review: This was a fantastic book, everyone's lavishly praised this one so I don't think I need to say much! One thing about this book that particularly fasinated me was the video interviews, archives exerpts etc that were between each chapter. It was Ella's transcript at the very beginning of the book that gave me the 'tingle', that feeling that a book is going to be very much worth buying."I've seen their videos, but I'll never see them. You sit in the dark, watching their faces as they talk through their brief lives and all the time you wonder what got them in the end. Was it a Winger striking out of the sky? Trackers on their heels till they dropped and the Myrmidons came? A Ferret uncoiling in some dark hole where they hoped to hide? Now you're watching me...and you're wondering...what got her?"
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Summary: Hang onto your seats kids, it's gonna be a bumpy ride...
Review: First of all, I'd advise all those with large, active imaginations to prepare and the faint of heart to leave the room.
As soon as you open up this book, you'll find yourself in a world where everyone knows the day they will die. At fourteen years of age, you are taken to the Meat Factory, your brain and muscles removed and turned into Creatures. These Creatures are then used by the Overlords in games between eachother. These games aren't held for anything but a small trophie.
The story follows Golden-Eye, named so because of his golden eyes. He is one of the few. The lucky. The wild. The ones that may have postphoned their death by escaping, but now run from place to place so that the Trackers (Creatures made from humans) can't sniff them out and stick them in the Meat Factory.
Golden-Eye ends up, by sheer luck, into the hands of the only 'good guys' on the planet. At least, they are suppose to be the good guys.
If you aren't ready, this story can rip you right open and contaminate your thoughts for days. It's full of page-to-page (what feels more like wall-to-wall) thirllers and cliff hangers. It makes you think. It makes you wonder... Just how far do the depths of evil in good go?
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Summary: My good buy
Review: This is one of those books that you never hear about. I walked into the store and found this book by Garth Nix. Garth Nix is an excellent writer for young adults, so I decided to try it out.
As I began to read it, the ever familiar writing style continued to flow, and before I knew it, the book had come to its end.
It was an excellent book and I recomment it to anyone who enjoys sci-fi or Nix's style. I can only hope to see more of Gold-Eye and Ninde, and of how they went about rebuilding their future.
If you enjoyed Sabriel, try this one!
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Summary: WOW : )
Review: When your fourteen and you have no parents or siblings older than sixteen, things seem cool. Now after the change. Your parents are gone, and your future lies in the hands of the overlords. Some have powers after the change and escape from evil but may be sent to the meat factory. The Overlords raise you temporarily until they think your body and mind is strong. They will then use your brain for other creatures and your muscle for their strength. If you escape, which happens every 1 in 10,000 kids, consider yourself lucky. You would be even luckier us recued by Shade. Shade and his children of escapees fight the overlords, to reach their final goal, to change everything back to the way it used to be. But now for Gold-Eye, Ninde, Ella, and Drum, they must fight using the talents that were given to them after the "change" and survive. The odds are against them 4 against hundreds of thousands of blood eating ferrets and humanlike birds of prey. Read to find out more!!!
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Summary: this is a good book
Review: I love sci-fi and this is at the topp of my list. it is not ment for little kids but is still readable if they are good readers.
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Summary: Review for "Shade's Children"
Review: "Shade's Children" is an awsome book. It is actually one of my favorites. Garth Nix put so much detail and emotion into it, that it was practically realistic. A fiction book about children living without their parents. Raised by Shade, a hologram. They are living in a dreadful nightmare. Children are being captured and sent to the Meat Factory to be turned into vicious creatures. This is a very scary book, but it's also very fascinating and creative.
Not everyone will be able to handle the tragedy though, so if you are looking for comedy, you won't find it here.
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