Shade's Children
Garth Nix
In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his 14th 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 recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape.
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Posted by Avocatore (38 weeks ago ) I read it in three hours. It's a bit grim, and not for younger readers - and perhaps the language is not suitable for older readers either in places, being kind of clumpy.
Still, it isn't bad. You can zip through it, and the action is fairly relentless. Maybe not one of Nix's best but certainly better than many other authors.
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