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Summary: Listen up everyone!!!
Review: Okay here some people probably like this sounds like a strange or stupid book, even as you start to read it. That's what I thought. But the moment I finished the first "chapter" (3 pages long) my mom was yelling at me cause I wouldn't do anything cause I had to finish that book. I'm about to give it the highest praise that anyone in my position can...*deep breath*...This is as good as Harry Potter. Believe it or not. Here we have romance, action, betrayal, friendships, growing up, science fiction, and the best plot ever! There is one boy, woke up and his dad was gone with their car in the middle of the street. He looks for his older sister and she isn't there either. How would you feel. Oh the only thing that I can use to prove my point is this... I have never cried in a book before. Ever. The ending is soooooooooo good that it took all of my control to not start bawling. You deciede. I've got to run bye!
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Summary: In a world where your fourteenth birthday is your last......
Review: Garth Nix has amazed me once again with Shade's Children. Shade's Children is about a time on Earth when Overlords and their roborts rule and a child's fourteenth birthday is their last. Four children who have escaped the Overlords,Gold Eye,Ninde,Ella,and Drum, bond together under their protector,Shade,to release all children from this horrible future. It is a fantastic book full of suprises and twists. It is suspenseful and detailed. If you like books such as The Giver by Lois Lowry or Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix, you will love this book. I greatly enjoyed this book and encourage you to read it.
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Summary: Surviving CHANGES....
Review: When you wake up one morning and you expect your mom making breakfast, and your dad drinking coffee and reading the paper, you see neither of them. You check to see if they went somewhere, the cars are still there. A "Change" has occurred due to a creation of monsters, which made all humans over the age of 14 disappear. Children that are left behind are put into "dormitories" by monsters. Gold-Eye is the main character that lives in the dormitories, but was lucky enough to be rescued by other escapees. Every person that lived through the "Change" received a certain type of special power. The former escapees are a group called "Shade's Children", that go on missions to learn about the monster's technology to change back the "Change". Shade is an artificial human that has human qualities except an actual body. Living the rest of your life through the "Change" is something most people couldn't survive before your fourteenth birthday. After your fourteenth birthday they take you to "The Meat Factory" and take your brain and place it into a monster. One in ten thousand actually escape successfully from the dorms, but when you watch those SURVIVOR shows, try to compare it with surviving the "Change".
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Summary: Excellent
Review: Shade's Children is definitley one of my favourite books. It takes place in the future when the world is run by Masters of special machines. On their 14th birthday, children are taken from their dorms, and turned into one of these machines. This book is about a group of free humans, who live in a submarine, owned by Shade, a computer personality. This may sound a bit weird, but it is truly a great book. I also recommend Sabriel which is by the same author.
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Summary: This book is incredible
Review: This book was absolutely amazing. I found the charcters intriguing, the story was brilliantly devised, and I particularly like Nix's descriptions and unique personalitites of each kind of creature. The book was vivid, and it was very easy to imagine in your mind what was happening on the page. Suspenseful, exciting and intelligent, Shade's Children is a wonderful book, and I highly reccomend it.
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Summary: If I could, I'd give it six stars.
Review: Garth Nix's book Shade's Children is by far the best book I have Ever read. I really give it six stars, unfortunatly I can't. This is a page turner and you won't be able to put it down. You can get to know the characters such as Goldeye, Drum and more realistic characters. This action packed futuristic novel will keep you on the edge of your seat. A great twist ending that will blow your mind. Nix has really outdone himself this time. I can't wait to read his next work. If you like action, suspense with a pinch of romance then you have to read this book. My favorite part, was the whole book! The developed characters in this futuristic setting made me feel like I had traveled into the future and was watching the whole thing. I couldn't belive it! You must buy this book!
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Summary: Totally Awesome
Review: This is probably my favorite book of all time. I never once wanted to put the book down. It is fast paced with a lot of action. It is about 4 children who are left to defend the whole human race from the Overlords. This definatly for teen readers and up. I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to read a great book.
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Summary: Shade's Children
Review: This book is action packed with a frightening twist . VERY suspenseful. I had to read the ending a few times!!
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Summary: A twisted story, of mystery suspense action and drama!
Review: This story while a bit gory is very good!!!!!!!!! It is scary because it takes place in our world in the near future. I won't give it away, but I will just say that there are theese people from an other dimention who have taken the world over, and it is about a boy who fights back.
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Summary: Masterpiece of YA Sci-Fi
Review: Wow. That is really the only word that I can use to describe this magnificant novel. Not only does it appeal to the teen audience (its' target group), but also manages to engross adults and people of all ages. By using sacrifice, heroism, love, and even treachery, Nix paints a fascinating tale of these children who work for a "mysterious-computer-man". All the children who have not fled the city are dissected and used to make war beasts upon their 14th birthday. Actually, this isn't as gross as it seems. Nix uses this part of the plot very well, using it as a source of motivation for those who have escaped.From reading the book summaries at the top of this page, you might be wondering how these "Overlords" tookover and how children are being killed. This is Nix's finest moment, as he slowly reveals what happened by putting little interviews of some of the escapees between the chapters. This is something you have to read to believe. However, "Shade's Children" is not without one small problem: the characters' names. If you want to read this (which you should!), you'd better get used to names like Shade, Drum, and Gold-Eye. Fprtunately, the rest of this book far outshines this one small problem. Finally, if you liked Madeliene L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time" or Lois Lowry's "The Giver", read this book! It manages to combine the best of these two classics while adding much, much more.
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