Shade's children vs The infects: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Children's fiction
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…
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The infects
Sixteen-year-old Nick "Nero" Sole is stuck in the woods with the other kids who have survived when zombies attack and their horror-movie nightmares come to life. Seventeen-year-old Nero, stuck in the wilderness with…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Shade's children has the widest readership — 13808 ratings behind its score.
- Shade's children runs the darker storyline; The infects stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Shade's children | The infects | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.9 (13808) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.8 (45) | 2.5 (4) |
| Google Books | 3.0 (2) | 5.0 (2) |
| Apple Books | 5.0 (29) | 5.0 (6) |
Reception
| Shade's children | The infects | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 13808 | 6 |
| Editions | 12 | 5 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 7184 | — |
| Reading it now | 173 | — |
| Written reviews | 688 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 563 | — |
| Pages | 345 | 384 |