Shade’s+Children

Shade's Children Tyler Salathe

I know this may sound weird or confusing at first but please, bear with me. __Shade’s Children__ begins with a boy running for his life away from Wingers, Trappers, and Trackers. These are robots that are constructed for only one purpose: to kill. There are many different types of robots but these are the main ones. Trackers track the prey, Wingers fly up in the sky and locate the humans, and the Trappers are the ones that collect, kill, and bring people to the meat factory. The Meat Factory is the place where human bodies are harvest into machines that collect and kill more humans. Gold Eye is the name of the boy who is running from these murderous machines, and he is miraculously saved by a group of rebels. Gold Eye is fascinated by how old these people are because they are older than fourteen, the sad day when you get harvested into machines. The “Sad Day” is when the humans in compounds turn fourteen and are brought to a factory and killed. Then their organs and body parts are removed and put into machines. This group of rebels who have escaped from the machines consists of Drum, an abnormally large man, Ella, and Ninde, who will all soon become Gold Eye’s best friends. Later on Gold Eye is taken to meet Shade, a hologram living inside a network of computers. He is the one that gives out missions to all of the teams of rebels. Shade knows that the human race is dying and that they have to find a way to stop that from happening. So he comes up with a master plan, one that will wipe out all of the robots and Overlords that are controlling the planet. Overlords are the few robots who have control over everything and everyone. Shade sends all of the teams, including Gold Eye’s on life treating missions to take out all of the Deceptors that give the robots power. Some people think Shade is crazy and despise him for the things he makes them do. “If you had a body still, I’d try and smash your F***ing face in for what you’ve done. Kids sent out to find things that you already know, sent down tunnels to get parts for your computer or your robI ots… used as bait… used up…” yelled Sam Allen, a boy who doubted Shade’s capabilities. Yet there is something about Shade that gets more mysterious and ruthless every day… If you want to find out how the teens defeat the Overlords, or if Shade becomes evil or not, you have to read the book. I would strongly suggest reading the book, it was my favorite book of all time and I would give it a 10 out of 10. It’s an absolute page turner and will have you up for hours!

Response This book sounds amazing and I don't usually like technology in books I read. I love the fact that there are rebels. I haven't even read the book and I would give a recomendation. Is there anything you didn't like about the book? Alanna