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The emotional connection between Hill and the killers in the two previous books is missing here, making the entire killer plot read like an afterthought | killers | neutral | 0 |
Chamberlain was toppled not because he sought to appease Hitler and avert a cataclysm, but because he didn't have the mettle to wage all-out war when the necessity for it was thrust upon him | Hitler | neutral | 0 |
but when these dog-faced creatures come to reclaim it they also bring this plague to the world and aurther is the only one who can get the cure | dog-faced creatures | neutral | 0 |
The kind of reader that might enjoy this book is someone that likes adventure, excitement and funny books like me | adventure | positive | 0 |
A villain, his messenger with blood stained wings, and an army of dog faced creatures will do anything to get the key back, even if it means destroying Arthur and everything that surrounds him | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
He is drawn back to the fray when his old love interest, DCI Jordan, becomes involved in a dangerous undercover mission in Eastern Europe | undercover mission | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix did a great job, and I can't wait to read Grim Tuesday, the next book in the Keys to the Kingdom series! | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
This was the first book that I read by Paul Zindel and now he is one of my favorite authors | Paul Zindel | positive | 0 |
I can definitely see the connects between Mister Monday and these other series, but there is little else there besides the fact that Mister Monday is a somewhat dark, young adult fantasy novel | fantasy novel | neutral | 0 |
Then Arthur got a backpack full of salt and melted all the dogs, but no atlas was to be found | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
the day to day existance as a slave in | slave | neutral | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon and Suzy Blue are two amazing characters, Arthur: a normal boy, asthmatic, not too confident about himself, intelligent and thoughtful | Suzy Blue | positive | 0 |
I noticed that my students often began reading book two before I was done reading book one because they were so anxious to find out what happened to Arthur! I would recommend this book for anyone who values the amazing capabilities of the imagination | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
In having this attach Arthur Penhaligon meets two new friends (Leaf and Ed twin brother and sister) and also gets a suprise, Mister Monday and his buttler, Sneezer, appear with a flash of light and give Arthur a gift,(Arthur thinks Sneezer is up to something but does not know) a minute hand of a clock (the clock that was guarding the will) and a book (An Atlas he can't yet open) | Sneezer | neutral | 0 |
Suzy is an excellent character, a good partner/guide for Arthur and the best friend he could have in this world | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
WINSTON'S WAR is the first in a series of novels about Churchill's wartime leadership | novels | neutral | 0 |
They provided relief from Liz's ridiculousness | Liz | negative | 0 |
Diabola, on the other hand, was a complete Devil | Diabola | negative | 0 |
In this book, Ernest Gellner uses the psychoanalytic movement as a "case study" to explore the general human tendency to create delusional ideological systems which serve various political, social, and psychological needs | psychoanalytic movement | neutral | 0 |
Kingston does a great job of weaving together pop culture and history, and she's a fun writer | history | positive | 0 |
But it doesn't work as Mister Monday intended, for with the key in his hand Arthur can breathe as though he has never had asthma | asthma | neutral | 0 |
Cuthertson-Jones figured out that Angela and Diabola can only balance by being around each other | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Class Trip was an alright book; the author is pretty talented, except it wasn't too hard or complex to follow, which usually forms the best kind of mystery | author | positive | 0 |
If books on criminal profiling and psychological forensics are your thing, you'll probably really enjoy McDermid's work | criminal profiling | neutral | 0 |
This newest offering, "Last Temptation", is a very good tale, but is definitely not for those readers who prefer to avoid the grisly details of murders, in this case those of a serial killer | tale | positive | 0 |
but before he can do that he has to dodge fechters, run from enemys like Noon and Dawn, run from dinosaurs, try not to get killed, and try to prevent himself from having a asthma atackk!! But, thankfully he has some help from a girl named suzy, a guy named Dusk, and a talking toad | Dusk | neutral | 0 |
Gregory McDonald once wrote funny, interesting books | Gregory McDonald | positive | 0 |
Then Diabola draws a horrid picture, and the principal thinks Diabola is a genius | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Unknowingly to Arthur, the key is what saves him from death, and regretably, seals his fate to embarking on a quest to save another dimension from the ruins of the "Days", although this is what saves his life, he soon begins to regret ever becoming the heir to first key, and so begins the start of the series of The Keys to the Kingdom | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
This book explores the manner in which European - well British anyway - people became familiar with India from the 1700s on | European | neutral | 0 |
Arthur has to go to a foreign realm and defeat an enemy that has so much more power than he does, if Monday was a T-Rex then Arthur would be a blade of grass compared to him | Arthur | neutral | 1 |
The Architect's Will was broken into seven pieces by the treacherous Trustees to prevent it from ever being executed | Trustees | negative | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon and Suzy Blue are two amazing characters, Arthur: a normal boy, asthmatic, not too confident about himself, intelligent and thoughtful | Arthur | positive | 1 |
The parallel plots work quite well together and greatly heighten suspense to the degree that the book simply cannot be put down | plots | positive | 0 |
THE LAST TEMPTATION is an aggregate of pristine prose, complicated plot twists, roller coaster pacing, intelligent characters, and very interesting subject matter | characters | positive | 0 |
This is a dark side of the moon kind of book it is full of suspense and you never what will happen next | suspense | positive | 0 |
It also shows at the end how even though a couple breaks up they can still be friends | couple | negative | 0 |
Nix also uses a fantasy theme that we have all seen in the movies: interdimensional travel | interdimensional travel | neutral | 0 |
Their task was to take over the supervision of our world (or `The Secondary Realms') from the creator - the Architect, who left Her instructions written in a Will, to be carried out accordingly | Will | neutral | 0 |
Cactus and cactuslike plants - agave, barrel, cholla, etc | cactuslike plants | neutral | 0 |
Clearly Guterson has done his research down to the last stray bullet, but there's a second-hand feeling to the material, which seems less a token of Ben's detachment than the author's | Guterson | neutral | 0 |
I liked it when Dybo pushed miss Mursles off the climbing frame without any clothes on! Angela and Diabola is a great book for all ages because it is not violent but it is extra funny | Dybo | neutral | 0 |
The Will tells Aurther that to find this cure, he has to defeat Mister Monday, using the Minute Hand key, and claim Mondays half of the key {the Hour Hand}which will then bind with the Minute Hand to become the first and leat Key to the Kingdom | Aurther | neutral | 0 |
However, some of the stories could have been left out | stories | negative | 0 |
The author notes a curious reversal of sentiments among highly educated younger women, who are more and more eschewing independent careers advocated by feminism to become wives | feminism | neutral | 0 |
This book is jam-packed with many fantastical inventions that is purely Nix at his best | fantastical inventions | positive | 0 |
For the author, Freudianism is a self-perpetuating, falsification-evading, closed system, which controls its own database | Freudianism | negative | 0 |
Arthur is suspended between many betrayals, and has many things like "Trust the Will" and then "Don't trust the Will" told to him, and is constantly hunted by the lazy mister monday and his Noon (Right hand man), Dawn (Left hand woman) and constantly helped by Mondays Dusk, the final of the trio of the day (You may have guessed Mister Monday can only come to earth on monday, his dawn can only come from 12:01 AM-1:00 AM, Noon can only come from 12:00 PM-1:00 PM, and finaly dusk can come from 11:00 PM-12:00 AM) | dusk | neutral | 0 |
Dr Tony Hill and DCI Jordan are back - hurrah! Tony Hill is the profiler who has retired to a backwater university to lick his wounds after the traumatising experiences he has suffered in the past | Tony Hill | neutral | 1 |
The ancient Harappan civilisation - so developed and yet so static - the Hindu culture and the Buddha who grew within it (but where have the Indian Buddhist gone today - how were they driven away or why did the philosophy become unfashionable), the Jains - a sect of the Buddhists? And then there are the aboriginal peoples of India, the Moslem invasions, and, of course, the British | Harappan civilisation | neutral | 0 |
Very good characters with competent development and well thought out roles within the story | characters | positive | 0 |
Hill, a clinical psychologist who consults with the police as a profiler, and Carol Jordan, the police officer with whom he works most closely, always feel like real people with investigative abilities and compassion that are easy to admire and foibles that are easy to relate to | Hill | positive | 0 |
Running parallel to this is a creepy serial killer who Tony Hill tries to find and unmask | serial killer | negative | 0 |
The book follows the adventures of a young, asthmatic boy, who inherits a strange clockhand | asthmatic boy | neutral | 0 |
Stuart Murphy has written many books | Stuart Murphy | neutral | 0 |
Actually the most vivid memory I have of the story is when Liz calls home to say she'll be late, her stepfather calls her a tramp, and that's when she succumbs to Sean's pressure to have sex | stepfather | neutral | 0 |
If you have any affection for Tony Hill and Carol Jordan as created by Val McDermid, don't read this book | Carol Jordan | neutral | 0 |
There is also a concurrent subplot, quite connected to the larger plot, involving a 9 year old girl who also goes missing but finds herself doing and thinking things far beyond her young capabilities, much to her confusion | girl | neutral | 0 |
and at school, some dog faced men come in to kill him along with Noon for the key, so Arthur couldn't be master of the Lower House if he could get the hour hand key from Monday inside the strange house | Lower House | neutral | 0 |
Now he expands further, in a darker, grittier, more realistic fantasy set in our world, where a confused young boy has to escape dark forces that want to use him for their own ends -- or kill him | young boy | neutral | 0 |
I am sure Paul Zindel means well, but his outlook on human life is simplistic at best and cynical at worst | Paul Zindel | neutral | 0 |
McDermid does a pretty good job of integrating the two subplots, and her use of German and Dutch settings makes for a change from her usual 'real English locations with fictional names' approach | McDermid | positive | 0 |
Soon Arthur is being pursued by more dog-faced Fetchers, and a strange plague is sweeping his town -- and somehow the Key is keeping him alive, even though he was supposed to die of an asthma attack | Key | neutral | 0 |
So Arthur and Suzy have many encounters and then are captured, and Arthur is thrown into the Coal Cellar of the realms and meets the "Ancient One" who tells him the stories and some of the secrets of the realms inside the house and about the "improbable stair" which only excists if you are able to see it and able to transfer from one realm to another quickly without losing it and being stranded in the realm forever | Ancient One | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix's 'Mister Monday' was a highly clever, creative, and entertaining read that had me up into the wee hours of the morning following Arthur's adventures in the House | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
Although The only reason Arthur is in this adventure is so he can save the world from the plague the "Key" brought with it | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
My favorite part is when Diabola and Mrs | Diabola | neutral | 0 |
Arthur has to go to a foreign realm and defeat an enemy that has so much more power than he does, if Monday was a T-Rex then Arthur would be a blade of grass compared to him | foreign realm | neutral | 0 |
Obviously, Nix wrote this book for a younger audience so his writing wasn't as | Nix | neutral | 0 |
The book relates, with common sense and humor, instructions given early Americans on proper table manners, conversation and correspondence, dress, behavior in the drawing room and in public places, and it includes a special, more intimate section - "For Womankind" | dress | positive | 0 |
I loved this book probably because I love every book I read but mostly because Garth Nix is an awesome author | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
Worse of all is the outbreak of a mysterious illness that puts the whole community into quarantine and Arthur's own family in danger | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
The characters are complex and believable, the plot consistent and the outcome unguessable until the last pages | characters | positive | 0 |
The children's novel "keys of the Kingdom Mister Monday" is a hardcore mix beetween mystery and science fiction | keys of the Kingdom Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
This was a great book, which really pulls the reader in! Nix has done a great job with the adventure aspect of the novel, and there are many fantastic (if fantastically evil) creatures, described in detail in their essence and physical aspects included | creatures | positive | 0 |
It was just like a real story | real story | neutral | 0 |
There are other great secondary characters as well, Monday's Noon: the bad guy, loyal servant, strong and fierce | Noon | neutral | 0 |
So Arthur and Suzy have many encounters and then are captured, and Arthur is thrown into the Coal Cellar of the realms and meets the "Ancient One" who tells him the stories and some of the secrets of the realms inside the house and about the "improbable stair" which only excists if you are able to see it and able to transfer from one realm to another quickly without losing it and being stranded in the realm forever | Coal Cellar | neutral | 0 |
Deliberately author Michael Marshall splits up his story between the first person narration of ex-cop/coffee table book captionist Jack Whelan, with a variety of third person accounts that are purposely confusing and disparate, so that you need a second reading to be able to piece it all together properly | Michael Marshall | neutral | 0 |
This is the weakest book in the series | series | neutral | 0 |
Kobler shows all the complexities of Al Capone, He may have evil traits, but a very real human came through in Kobler's biography | biography | neutral | 0 |
She spends a great deal of time focusing on the upper classes, whether royalty, celebrities, politicians or CEOs | upper classes | neutral | 0 |
Unfortunately, the author chose to describe Capone's effect on the world in seven pages | author | negative | 0 |
Arthur Penhaligon, an asmathic seventh grader is an intersting character, with a very unordinary life | Arthur Penhaligon | neutral | 0 |
She has a simple explanation for everything, but Jack's cop instincts tell him all is not what it seems | Jack | neutral | 0 |
The book Mister Monday by Garth Nix , was a very good book | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
But, as Marshall slowly reveals, there are tiny cracks around the foundation of the Whalen family --- not necessarily fissures or yawning chasms, but cracks nonetheless | Marshall | neutral | 0 |
The author crosses geographical boundaries; her plot lines involve police forces in England, Holland and Germany | police forces | neutral | 0 |
There are also a few really violent scenes that make me want to classify this more for Teens | scenes | negative | 0 |
Garth Nix creates a vast array of imaginative creatures with incredible talents | creatures | positive | 0 |
Marshall throws in a bit of the supernatural and even SciFi, but the character of Jack and his determined progress keep this tale grounded firmly on the personal issues | Jack | neutral | 0 |
These, along with Mr Monday and his avenging messengers with blood-stained wings, will stop at nothing to get back the key, even if it means destroying Arthur and everything around him | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
After that, Arthur met Noon again with his brother and sister, Dawn and | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
That said, this "Keys to the Kingdom" series is more disjointed and less appealing than Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
The author begins the story of Capone in his service to Johnny Torrio | Capone | neutral | 0 |
When he goes the house and touches the key to the wall a black door appears he walks in it and goes to another world | black door | neutral | 0 |
It was a real story about a real boy in an exciting, intriguing situation | boy | positive | 0 |
Worse of all is the outbreak of a mysterious illness that puts the whole community into quarantine and Arthur's own family in danger | mysterious illness | negative | 0 |
This is the third novel I have read by Val McDermid | novel | neutral | 0 |
The intricate world of the House was highly entertaing and origional and Nix stuns me every time he writes a new story | Nix | positive | 0 |