Summer reading lists for school can be a bore... with a list of books to choose from it is often important to just bear down and read. But...I was greatly surprised by enjoying the opening pages of The Shadow Thieves but soon learned that the quick, clever, border line and confusing beginning turned into the typical and unfortunately formulaic writing. The plot was border line great. A 13 year old boy moves in with his cousin just after every kid in his old town becomes deathly sick with no symptoms. After moving in with his cousin, kids become to fall sick until they realize that the cause are black 'beings' from the underworld taking children's shadows to create an army to over throw "Hates." Though the childish writing doesn't bring up any truly interesting or thoughtful subjects, it made summer reading a little less painful! The Shadow Thieves by Anne Ursu.- Her
Rating: 6/10
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