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I Become Shadow

by Joe Shine
Rachel Dulude
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This debut thriller combines a pulse-pounding thriller with a new-adult coming-of-age story set at Texas A&M University.

When Ren Sharpe was fourteen, she was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called FATE and trained to be a human weapon.

Now, four years later, she receives her assignment: protect Gareth Young at all costs. Currently a student at Texas A&M, Gareth will someday change the world. FATE calls people like Gareth "FIPs"—future important people—and they're everywhere, each with a FATE-trained shadow.

But when disaster strikes, Ren will have to turn on her maker. Together with Junie, a fellow abductee and the one person she trusts, Ren takes Gareth on the run.

Because whatever else happens, failure is not an option.

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    January 1, 2015

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781481510318
      • File size: 211728 KB
      • Duration: 07:21:05

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 7, 2014
      This action-packed SF thriller, Shine’s first novel, follows Ren Sharpe from her kidnapping by the clairvoyant F.A.T.E. agency at age 14. Though Ren’s story starts awkwardly, describing her first Pap smear and a gross betrayal by her crush, it gains in intensity and interest after the abduction, as Ren struggles with her brutal new surroundings. Put through a sadistic training program to become a Shadow, a fearless bodyguard for her FIP (Future Important Person), Ren toughens up quickly. “The girl you were can’t survive here.... You need to become someone else,” a fellow Shadow advises her, and Ren comes to believe in F.A.T.E.’s mission to protect humanity’s future leaders and innovators. At 18, Ren is chemically “linked” to science prodigy Gareth, and the usual love triangle formula receives a twist as Ren compares her artificially induced feelings for brainy Gareth with her spontaneous love for brawny, loyal Junie, whose friendship made her training bearable. Shine has a talent for high-stakes fight scenes, and excitement builds as Ren, Junie, and Gareth unravel the mysteries of F.A.T.E. Many questions go unanswered, leaving room for a sequel. Ages 14–up.

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