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I've always loved the writings and narratives of Garth Nix, and this book is by no means an exemption. I first read this book and began my journey with Arthur when it first came out and eagerly awaited the next installment with bated breath. And now, after all these years, I have returned to this series and it is still as captivating as when I first read it. If you're looking for a story that has an interesting plot and characters while being a fun and entertaining read, then I highly recommend picking up not only this book but the entire series.


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Mister Monday The Keys to the Kingdom Book 1 Garth Nix Books Reviews

Then I discovered your books. I feel like Columbus… finally a new retreat, a breath of fresh air, a new friend. Your books have a wonderful writing style, not layered with useless facts & fiction that add pages to the novel but nothing to the story line. I adore your humor and the interplay of the characters. Thank You for sharing your wonderful talent.
The writing is good, the characters are good, but it is written to stretch out through seven books, so key plot issues never get fully resolved when you expect that they should. The story line thus drags out in way that reminded me of the Series of Unfortunate Events. I am not going to bother to read the other six books because it feels like it will be unsatisfying if each books ends with "Oh, by the way, there is still another issue that has to be resolved before the hero can rest, so you have to read the next book."
Mister Monday is an interesting Fantasy novel that draws readers in from the very beginning. The main character, Arthur is flawed and that is what makes him the "chosen" one for the Keys to the Kingdom. In this series starter, Arthur learns what power he has as he tries to determine how to live his life with this key that he has obtained and this house and little, scary fantasy creatures that no one else can see but him.

Arthur starts to think he is losing it, but a few friends from his P.E. class see the creatures too, so Arthur apprehensively goes on his journey as the reluctant hero who is bound to find a way to save his community and family.

This book along with Grim Tuesday will hook readers on this series. I can't wait for the rest of the books in this series.

Harry Potter lovers can definitely find a new love in this series.
There's certainly one thing to be said about everything Nix writes, and that is that it's rife with original creativity and completely new fantasy stories. However, sometimes the books themselves, although phenomenally imaginative, are hit or miss depending on how much Nix is able to flesh out the story. The Seventh Tower series, for instance, is deftly imagined, a two worlds drawn together through light and shadow, and the ability to use colored gemstones to create light beams that can do all sorts of interesting things. Unfortunately for whatever reason, Nix doesn't explore the world and the story enough. It's much more like eating watery soup than it is like consuming a good meal.

The Abhorsen Trilogy, on the other hand, is a great work, and although it's not a classic literature sort of story, the world itself is fleshed out well, so that the reader can really imagine the world and lose themselves in it. I feel like the Keys to the Kingdom series is a mixture of both, and I'd love to see the world more fully explored. The first book, especially, seems to move toward that path, but as the books progress, they seem to become more and more formulaic and lacking in substance. Ultimately, Nix's imagination seems to know no bounds, but if he would slow down and put more life into these books, I think they would be much better. Not to say that the books aren't fun to read, but I believe they could be fun to read and rich. Hopefully his next fantasy series will be more like The Abhorsen Trilogy.

-Lindsey Miller, [...]
Though not a fan of fantasy, I do read it occasionally to keep up on what my students are reading. The richly imagined descriptions in this series made it one that I enjoyed reading. An asthmatic seventh grade boy, Arthur Penhaligan, is the hero for this seven book fantasy. Handicapped and with the odds always against him, he does not give up trying to do what's right. A rich stew of surreal Alice in Wonderland-type imagery and characters, elements reminiscent of myths, an alternate universe, endless hair's breadth escapes, grisly horror, and mystery, Keys to the Kingdom never lags. However, this series is not just a vividly imagined movie in print for a happy reader to follow. Keys to the Kingdom is a thinking kid's fantasy. If one pays close enough attention, answers to the great questions of the origins of our world and our human natures might come close to being answered.

Well-liked by both boys and girls in my middle school classes, this series is favored by boys; and though written at a seventh grade reading level, is also well-liked by high school boys into about tenth grade. The interest level is rated at grade five through eight. Both the complexity of the plot and the at times nightmare-like imagery may keep this from being a book for fifth grade and under, unless a child in these years is looking to be challenged and a little frightened.

The series starts with Mister Monday and moves through each day of the week Grim Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday, Sir Thursday, Lady Friday, Superior Saturday, and the eagerly awaited and yet un-named Sunday episode.

Gaby Chapman
Arthur is a severely asthmatic 7th grader. But when he finds himself in the woods on the edge of suffocating to death, two Victorian-style men appear and once is tricked into giving the boy a magical key.

This key not only saves him from death but entangles him in a conspiracy between supernatural forces going back tens of thousands of years.

It starts slow. And Arthur spends too long with nothing explained, being pushed around by strange forces. But about halfway through the world begins to make sense. And at long last he moves from reactor to having a goal and some power to take steps forward. The last half of the book was good and I'm hoping the second in the series starts with the energy and clarity that we ended with.
I've always loved the writings and narratives of Garth Nix, and this book is by no means an exemption. I first read this book and began my journey with Arthur when it first came out and eagerly awaited the next installment with bated breath. And now, after all these years, I have returned to this series and it is still as captivating as when I first read it. If you're looking for a story that has an interesting plot and characters while being a fun and entertaining read, then I highly recommend picking up not only this book but the entire series.