This book is very different from what I usually read and there's kind of a backstory to why I ended up reading it. I was at the library with my boyfriend and I really wanted him to read The Raven Boys because it's my fave, so I agreed to read a book that he picked out for me. Yeah, our reading taste...
Twice I picked this book up from the library, and twice I returned it, unable to get much further than Arthur Penhaligon’s step into the mysterious house. However, because I did like the concept behind the Keys to the Kingdom series, I took advantage of the audiobook and finally managed to get throu...
Mister Monday is the first book I have read by Garth Nix and I decided to pick it up because I have heard many good things about this author from many other book bloggers out there. I must say it was an interesting story--quite bizarre, actually, though also very intriguing and ultimately difficult ...
This was really fun, and I wish I'd read it when I was younger. I have a suspicion that Nix writes children's fiction because he's not really capable of the depth and pacing that makes good 'adult' fantasy, but that's no terrible thing.
I really did expect to like this series a lot more than I do when I added it to my reading list years ago, and perhaps this wasn't the right time to finally read it, but as it was I was disappointed. From the start it wasn't what I expected in terms of story or style, and my stolid dismissal of Nix'...
Very reminiscent of Philip Pullman's [b:The Golden Compass|119322|The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)|Philip Pullman|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510AEGjZ9yL._SL75_.jpg|1536771], but without the anti-theism. Unfortunately, a little too juvenile even for my taste.
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