Shade's children

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This book seems to be one of Garth Nix's better works because he expands the mind more then he did in the last novel that I read by him, (Pullman's journey). Pullman's Journey took place in the mid 1700's and was about a poor man struggling to support his family. When he struck upon a bright moon rock, that was said to give him power over night and day. This way he could make his life easier, and essentially control time itself. The overall consequence of this was that whenever he awoke it was day and whenever he slept it was night. This sense of strange happenings made me feel like I wasn't really getting into the book. I never knew what was going to happen and I didn't feel that any of this book was relevant to anything.


I liked this book because I love future type gadget things, and every once in awhile it isn't bad to daydream about my life in 30-40-50 years. Sure it won't be as dramatically changed, but the future is always something that is unknown. Some people don't like knowing what is going to happen, because it can be bad, but ultimately I like to know what's coming so I can plan for it, and this book has some great points in showing the government's faults, and showing how other people can sneak up and nab the thresholds of what we know as civilized life.

Sure this all seems very puzzling, which it is in fact. I had to read a paragraph over a couple times to finally get what was going on. Once you pick up on the names of the characters, and the types of alien-robot beings, it becomes like clockwork and the nove

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