- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books; New edition edition (5 May 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330371665
- ISBN-13: 978-0330371667
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,073,488 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The big idea in Hex, Rhiannon Lassiter's first Sci-fi thriller is a strong one. Raven is a teenage "Hex" with a mutant gene that gives her the ability to interface the World Wide Web in the 24th Century--without a modem. She's persuaded by her brother into attempting to rescue their younger sister whose own Hexabilities have landed her in trouble.
Here, in the sequel, Raven is still lurking in the shadows of the gangland underworld of the future and her team of Hexes, family and friends are in hiding. Only when some anti-government terrorists seek them out and suggest a pact, does purpose return to their lives again and the sparks begin to fly. A fatal mistake by Raven forces the two groups to join forces sooner than they had anticipated. This time, there is a rescue attempt of a very different nature. The stakes are higher and the target even more dangerous.
Set a year after the initial drama, the story never quite hits the same heights despite containing more than enough action and suspense. Stranded between the highly acclaimed original novel and Hex: Ghosts, the excellent concluding book in her Hex sequence, Hex: Shadows loses much without the vivid background detail and imaginative scene-setting contained in the first instalment.
However, the Hex experience would definitely be incomplete without this book now that the trilogy is complete. Hex: Shadows should not be overlooked. It develops the characters further, tempts the reader with more of the deadly machinations of an all-conquering world government and leaves us dangling, tantalisingly close, to the engrossing final act. --John McLay
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Imprint. The laser-powered sequel to the futuristic thriller "Hex".Raven and Wraith rescued their broken, captive sister, Revenge, from the top-secret government facility where she was tortured for her Hex powers. Now they are outlaws on the run from a government bent on the destruction of the Hex gene...
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Rhiannon Lassiter's second novel, set a year after the events in Hex, is a crucial element in the trilogy . Following on where Hex left off, it follows Raven and Wraith's expanding group that the government have dubbed terrorists . Still determined to bring the truth about Hexes to light , the group are forced to join with a gang of freedom fighters called Anglecynn when an error of judgement on Raven's part results in tragedy . As well as the original characters from the first novel , Shadows introduces several new ones . This book also focusses on Raven as a person in a way that neither the first or third book does , and is probably the one in which she appears most human. This is an excellent book and vital to the series . Lassiter's writing , while by no means poor to start off with , gets even better in this . I definitely recommend it to anyone who liked Hex.
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