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Summary: Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: A very excellent conclusion to the Seventh Tower saga. Very exciting, a lot of actions, and Sunstone magic. Tal uses the most powerful Violet spell. The name, I won't tell you. Read the book!!!!!
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Summary: A Great Series Comes to an End
Review: First, I won't give away the ending.In this book, Tal and Milla continue to grow. Milla learns compassion while Tal learns to call upon inner strengths that he never knew he had. Both Tal and Milla learn that all people are people regardless of where they were born and they learn that the only way to judge a person is as an individual rather than what group they are from. Garth Nix has written a great series that breaks the mold in several ways. Perhaps the most profound way is that he tears down traditional gender roles by having a compassionate male hero and an aggressive female hero. Today, boys have to learn that they are not weak just because they are not aggressive. Boys also have to learn that girls can be just as physically aggressive as boys. Girls have to learn that boys can be strong in many ways, not just physically and that girls can also be strong. Hats off to Mr. Nix for a very well done story. I'm anxious to see what he gives us next.
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Summary: The conclusion to my favorite series of all time.....
Review: I absolutely LOVED these books. I've read this last book many times, and I can never get bored of it.
The first time I finished the book, I was surprised at the ending, and I got all sad because I didn't have any more Seventh Tower to read. I was forced to go read "The Ragwitch", which wasn't that great after reading the Seventh Tower books.
The characters and their relationships with eachother are perfect: There's Tal, the reluctant hero, who is my personal favorite character (besides Ferek... but he's barely in the books... ^^), Milla, the violent Icecarl, Crow, the vengeful Underfolk who may not be all he seems, and many, many others.
The plotline is drawn out PERFECTLY, and the ending is awesome. Me and all my friends absolutely LOVE these books, especially this last one.
My only complaint would be the lack of romance.... a little Tal/Milla thing might have been nice... but that's just me. ^_^
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Summary: just a side note
Review: I don't think it's a spoiler to say that Tal and Milla do not form a romance at any point in this series. In fact, I think the story is stronger for it.
It is often too easy to become distracted by the element of romance, to the point where whoever the main character is interested in becomes merely important as a love element. It is of course possible to have a story where there is romance that is very strengthening to the story and to the characterizations of both parties. That is often very important. But this tale breaks from the love-interest assumption, just as it breaks from many other genre assumptions.
Instead, both Tal and Milla experience a different kind of melding of souls. There is of course the joining of their shadows to the Storm Shepards Andras and Odris, and through this they feel a strange spiritual connection. But deeper than this is the sharing of societies that occurs between Tal and Milla. They each become an avatar of their society, yet also an outcast, while also absorbing qualities of each other's societies. They were then separated and pushed through more change, so that when they meet again, they are even more able to recognize the change in each other.
This kind sharing and learning is long overdue in the Dark World, and it is an experience that transcends gender; a romance in this situation would actually weaken the story, since then it would be more about the personal sharing that this boy and girl experience. Rather, the strength, indeed the whole point of this sharing, is that His People and Her People are being shared. The sharing has nothing to do with being a boy or girl, but with being a Person.
This also occurs, to a much lesser degree, with Tal and Crow, and with Milla and Malen. These secondary sharings, though, are more about Tal and Milla recognizing and dealing with other aspects of their own societies, demonstrated by the presence Crow and Malen; through these associations, both Tal and Milla must acknowledge and come to terms with a previously-assumed superiority that is not entirely appropriate, and with shame of personal failure (by the rules of their own societies), though it was a failure that has opened the door to growth, and so was vital to the health of the entire society.
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Summary: From an average kid's perspective
Review: I know a lot of people don't like to start books for two reasons.1:They don't want to read the slow beginning.2:They don't know if it's good.This book has both.
The only thing about the beginning is that you have to concentrate on where they are eventhough you'll probably get it later.The story takes place on(what i think earth)with i black veil over it.But above the veil is the sky this is also know as Aenir.
This book was a great novel.
I first started reading this series because i had got this book(The Fall)for christmas. It was laying around my house for a while and i'd thought i'd read it and what d'ya know i was hooked. i read all the way to the fifth book and stopped.i thought it was the ending but i was wrong. i kept reading until the last book.
When i read this book i just can't read 20 pages and.stop. i have to read 50 or 60.i think the ending was kind of weak cause it kind of left you hangin'............
That's why i wish there was another one.
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Summary: The Seventh Tower was great
Review: I love the seventh tower. I started to read the first one in the summer. It was supposed to be for school but when I started to read it,I was hooked! I wanted the next book as soon as I could. When I finnaly got to the finnal book (the violet keystone) I had no idea what I going to read next.
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Summary: The Violet Keystone (The Seventh Tower, Book 6
Review: I really liked the book. It had adventure, somethimes humor and I thought it was sort of a love story. There was 2 characters that like they had a crushed on each other. The book was surprising too! It was interesting. I hope there will be a part 7 like "The End" or something!! It was a GREAT book!!!!
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Summary: This was a good book!
Review: I really liked this book, but I think it should have had a longer ending. The final battle should have been harder.Ialso wish he kept his ooh can't tell you that. All in all it's a great book. Read the series!
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Summary: Best book
Review: I really love the 7th tower books. the other 5 books were like a to be countinued show. I could not wait for this book to come out. I wish this was not the last book ,but it seemed very final. Luckily this book was not another end of series cliffhanger. If you like Harry Potter than I think you should read this series.
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Summary: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Review: I simply loved this books. Its extreme details help you to feel the every move, the feelings of every character in the book. I am sure if you read this book you will love it too.
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