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In the brutal world of Shade's Children, your 14th birthday is your last. Malevolent Overlords rule the earth, directing hideous, humanoid creatures to harvest the brains and muscles of teens for use in engineering foul beasts to fight senseless wars. Young Gold-Eye escapes this horrific fate, fleeing the dormitories before his Sad Birthday. He is rescued from certain doom by other refugees who live in an abandoned submarine and work for Shade, a strange, computer-generated adult. Shade provides food and shelter in exchange for information that the children gather on dangerous forays into Overlord territory. But what does Shade really want? He is a sworn enemy of the Overlords, but his use of the children to gain knowledge and power seems uncaring and ruthless. Finally, Gold-Eye and his new friends set out to destroy the Overlords--with or without the enigmatic, dangerous Shade. Garth Nix, author of Sabriel, blends suspense, action, and high emotion in this excellent, fast-moving science-fiction story.
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Im glad i gave sci-fi a second chance. Honestly this genre was never a favorite of mine and in the past few years every scifi book i read was suprr bland and unenjoyable to me. But this book really fun to read and in my opinion a great intoduction to scifi so yeah if you wanna start reading that genre start with this book.The book was fast paced and the world building was decent even though i still had some questions at the end i enjoyed it a lot. (The ending felt super hurried tho but i didnt expect that much since it's a standalone)
May 8th 2025