✨faith✨trust✨pixiedust✨ Dead Account; Not Coming Back's Reviews > Shade's Children

I've read Garth Nix's main Old Kingdom trilogy (I still need to get to the newer books) and really loved those, so I was excited to try this post-apocalyptic dystopia by him, and I quite liked it too!

It felt a bit like a really weird fever dream, the ones that you suddenly remember months later and think "What was that about?" before moving on with your day. The characters are interesting, however shallowly we venture into their psyche. Few questions are answered, while many are presented. But again, it has that dreamy, dreadful quality that made me willing to look past all that and stay for the ride. Besides that, this book is SUPER ahead of its time! It came out before I was born and was a significantly more interesting and unique dystopia than any of the ones that came out during the Hunger Games craze, tbh including THG itself (you can fight me on that). And though the four main characters did kind of end up paired off at the end, it didn't feel forced or like Nix was doing it for the cliche, but rather that this is what these people would do.

Also, Shade was some good stuff, I just wish his ending was a little better. I feel like a longer book, that goes deeper into the characters and world, would have made this story much more effective. For what it was, I liked it!