Infected vs Shade's children: Which Should You Read?
Infected
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families. Working under the government's shroud of…
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Shade's children
The Key to Survival Rests in the Hands of Shade's Children In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no child shall live a day past his fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is…
The verdict
- Readers rate Infected highest: Infected 4.2 · Shade's children 3.9.
- Shade's children has the widest readership — 13808 ratings behind its score.
- Shade's children runs the darker storyline; Infected stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Infected | Shade's children | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | — | 3.9 (13808) |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (126) | 3.8 (45) |
| Google Books | 4.0 (32) | 3.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (226) | 5.0 (29) |
Reception
| Infected | Shade's children | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 226 | 13808 |
| Editions | 5 | 12 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | — | 7184 |
| Reading it now | — | 173 |
| Written reviews | — | 688 |
| Wikipedia attention | 147 | 563 |
| Pages | 384 | 345 |