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Book Review of Shade's Children

Shade's Children
Shade's Children
Author: Garth Nix
Genres: Children's Books, Teen & Young Adult
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Helpful Score: 3


Nix is a good writer, but this is not my favorite of his books. I found this had a much more depressing and hopeless tone than most of his other works, which have tended toward sad yet beautiful (Abhorsen) or dangerous yet hopeful (the Fall) or funny while challenging (the Keys to the Kingdom).