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Summary: Terrible book.
Review: I was seriously disappointed with this book. Garth Nix has written much better than this. Although I haven't read the Sabriel stuff, I have read Shade's Children and Seventh Tower, and both of them were much better than this. The story: Grim Tuesday (FYI, his sin is greed) has found a way to damage Arthur's world by collecting unpaid bills from the Lower House. Tuesday's realm, the Far Reaches, is a dark, bleak, dirty mine that indentured workers search for Nothing, which he sells to the Morrow Days. I was saddened not to see Ed or Pravuil, and Leaf didn't get much spotlight. Also, I was just disgusted at Nix's imagination; for some reason he barely uses it. An eyebrow that sucks up treasure? A tropical paradise in the center of a star? I could come up with better stuff than this. The only reason I'm buying the next one is because I was interested by the ending chapter. Other than that, this book is definitely boring and unimaginative and should only be read to be able to understand the next book.
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Summary: series is good
Review: the first book was very good and I think this one will be better. It sounds like it goes more in depth than the first and also sounds like it has a lot more things in it that will make for a better book.
the first book was very good and I think this one will be better. It sounds like it goes more in dipth than the first and also sounds like it has a lot more things in it that will make for a better book.
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Summary: Grim "Tuesday"
Review: Things go from bad to worse for Arthur Penhaligon in the second book of this series, "Grim Tuesday." Garth Nix's second Keys to the Kingdom book is a bit more plodding and hard to decipher than the first, but still has his deliciously dark sense of humor and knack for ghastly beasties. It's less than a day after the near-catastrophic events of "Mister Monday." And poor Arthur thought he was going to go back to a normal life. But he's suddenly called and told that Grim Tuesday has somehow called in debts of Mister Monday's -- including Arthur's entire world, among others. Houses are being mysteriously sold, creatures are swarming through his city, and the stock market is going wonky. So Arthur has to get back to the House and somehow get everything right again. He narrowly escapes being attacked by one of Tuesday's minions, and ends up being dumped in the Far Reaches. There, he becomes an indentured servant to Tuesday, in an enormous Pit that mines Nothing, and is undermining the very foundations of the House. With the help of his friend Suzy Blue and a nautical captain (and Tuesday's discarded soot-eating eyebrow), he must somehow get the second key and second part of the Will -- or be destroyed by Tuesday. Nix widens the scope of the world he introduced in "Mister Monday." Now that we're acquainted with concepts like the House, the Will, and the different Days, he goes full-speed into the storyline. There are plenty of interesting hints about the future -- especially a communique from Lady Wednesday. What will Nix do next? Only time will tell. This book is a little off-kilter -- the bureaucratic terms can make your head spin sometimes. What's more, Nix spends too much time focusing on zipping up with the Ascending Wings and clinging to the top. However, his descriptions of the mine are excellent, full of despair and misery. You can almost smell the soot and grime. Not to mention the hideous Nithlings, as creepy and sinister as anything out of Nix's classic dark fantasy "Sabriel." Grim Tuesday is an interesting villain in himself -- the ultimate plagiarizer, a guy who can't actually make things himself. So he copies other people's art and machines, and sells them. Arthur is still trying to fight against his destiny (just accept it, kid), and such memorable characters as Japheth the Thesaurus and the quirky Suzy appear to back him up. While it drags at times, "Grim Tuesday" is still an intriguing, imaginative read with plenty of darkness and humor. Good continuation of a solid series.
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Summary: Grim "Tuesday"
Review: Things go from bad to worse for Arthur Penhaligon in the second book of this series, "Grim Tuesday." Garth Nix's second Keys to the Kingdom book is a bit more plodding and hard to decipher than the first, but still has his deliciously dark sense of humor and knack for ghastly beasties. It's less than a day after the near-catastrophic events of "Mister Monday." And poor Arthur thought he was going to go back to a normal life. But he's suddenly called and told that Grim Tuesday has somehow called in debts of Mister Monday's -- including Arthur's entire world, among others. Houses are being mysteriously sold, creatures are swarming through his city, and the stock market is going wonky. So Arthur has to get back to the House and somehow get everything right again. He narrowly escapes being attacked by one of Tuesday's minions, and ends up being dumped in the Far Reaches. There, he becomes an indentured servant to Tuesday, in an enormous Pit that mines Nothing, and is undermining the very foundations of the House. With the help of his friend Suzy Blue and a nautical captain (and Tuesday's discarded soot-eating eyebrow), he must somehow get the second key and second part of the Will -- or be destroyed by Tuesday. Nix widens the scope of the world he introduced in "Mister Monday." Now that we're acquainted with concepts like the House, the Will, and the different Days, he goes full-speed into the storyline. There are plenty of interesting hints about the future -- especially a communique from Lady Wednesday. What will Nix do next? Only time will tell. This book is a little off-kilter -- the bureaucratic terms can make your head spin sometimes. What's more, Nix spends too much time focusing on zipping up with the Ascending Wings and clinging to the top. However, his descriptions of the mine are excellent, full of despair and misery. You can almost smell the soot and grime. Not to mention the hideous Nithlings, as creepy and sinister as anything out of Nix's classic dark fantasy "Sabriel." Grim Tuesday is an interesting villain in himself -- the ultimate plagiarizer, a guy who can't actually make things himself. So he copies other people's art and machines, and sells them. Arthur is still trying to fight against his destiny (just accept it, kid), and such memorable characters as Japheth the Thesaurus and the quirky Suzy appear to back him up. While it drags at times, "Grim Tuesday" is still an intriguing, imaginative read with plenty of darkness and humor. Good continuation of a solid series.
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Summary: Not Better Than The First But Still Entertaining
Review: This book continues to tell the story of Arthur in the House after the events that took place in Mister Monday. It is not as good as Mister Monday but it is still very entertaining.
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Summary: AMAZING BOOK!!!!!
Review: This book is the second book in the series of Keys to the Kingdom with Arthur Penhaligan. In this adventure, he ventures off into the far reaches ruled by Grim Tuesday and the second key. He has to take a sun ship to get part two of the will. And that is all I am going to tell you. You must read this book!!!!
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Summary: Its turning into Grim Tuesday for Arthur
Review: This is the second book in the Keys To The Kingdom series. It's 10am Tuesday morning and Arthur Penhaligon has learned that if he doesn't make his way back into The House by noon then his parents will be bankrupted and their home turned into a shopping mall. Grim Wednesday has found a loophole in the Will and is going to repossess all Arthur owns including The First Key. The only way Arthur can stop this is the claim the Key to Tuesday as Rightful Heir and to do this he will have to brave the horrors of the Grim's realm. These will take him in the depths of the pit and into the sun in the far reaches as Arthur meets some old friends and makes new ones in his quest to help those he loves. These are dark fantasies written for younger readers that can and should be read by anyone who enjoys an original fantasy world quite unlike those in novels written deliberately for older readers. This is a series well worth picking up and I'm looking forward to book three, DROWNED WEDNESDAY.
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Summary: Deeper into the House
Review: This is the second installment in Garth Nix's series, Keys to the Kingdom. In Grim Tuesday, the Grim himself has found a way to claim the Lower House in payment for a millennia of unpaid bills. However, once again Arthur's conflict with the Morrow Days spills into his life at home when Tuesday also threatens to collect from Arthur's world as well, by threatening to tear down Arthur's house to build a giant shopping mall. Arthur, unprepared for the assault must enter Tuesday's realm, the Far Reaches of the House to find the second part of the Will and claim the second key of the house and once again save his world and family from the denizens of the house. Grim Tuesday is very different in plot and feel from Mister Monday. Tuesday's Realm is darker and less orderly. Instead of being in charge of keeping the records of the Secondary Realms (aka the Universe)the Grim mines the Nothing in order to make things that he then sells to the other Realms in exchange for denizens who he uses as miners in the mine of the Nothing. However, Tuesday has delved so deeply into the mine that the mine is threatening the foundations of the house. Arthur, unarmed and keyless, has to enter this realm. We learn a lot more about the Nothing in this book, and even the possible origin of the mysterious suited men who always appear in the prologues of Mister Monday and Grim Tuesday. There are many more interesting characters to meet, such as Japeth the former Thesaurus, and several other characters make reappearances, most prominently Suzy Blue, now Monday's Tierce. However overall I found myself slightly dissatisfied with this book, by the end I was wishing that Arthur would just accept his part as Heir of the House and the fact that he will have to fight all of the Morrow Days and that they are not going to leave him alone until he grows up. This is made especially clear at the end. I also wished that Leaf and Ed were more than just peripheral characters, Leaf only appears for a few seconds and Ed isn't there at all, they seem very intriguing, and I wish Nix did more about them. Overall though, Grim Tuesday is an excellent read, we learn more about the world of the House, the Old One, the Nothing, and many other things besides. I can't wait for Drowned Wednesday.
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Summary: Not like the first one
Review: When I read the first book of the series, I wasn't quite sure how Garth Nix would pull off the rest of the series while still maintaining to create a new plot for each and every one of them. While I was impressed at what he managed to accomplish with his sequel, I still thought it lacked a bit. What Nix needs to do more is think outside of a set series, which he's done so brilliantly in the past. This is just a wild guess, but at the end of each book, I'm guessing there will be the same outcome.
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