From the back cover: In a brutal city of the future, human life is in the hands of the evil Overlords who have decreed that no child live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest—his brains and muscles are used to construct machine-like creatures whose sole purpose is to kill. The mysterious Shade—once a man, but … [Read more...] about Shade’s Children by Garth Nix: B+
Garth Nix
Pangs
Man, I am hungry. I've been sick the past few days and haven't really felt much like eating, but today I am ravenous. Hopefully this is a sign that things are improving. It hasn't been an utterly debilitating variety of sick, but I've felt pretty listless and my stomach has been tetchy. Some comments on recent books: Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix I'd been curious about … [Read more...] about Pangs