Superior Saturday

Garth Nix spins a great story, and the reader makes you want more and more! Please start with the first in the series or you lose the strength of the story line Arthur's change from a human boy to a grown-up denizen the longer he stays in the magical house collecting those keys. Arthur's great adventures in the house are both absorbing and entertaining!

Book six and it only now finally occurred to me that, for a light kid's fantasy series focusing on a boy coming of age (that is pretty paint by numbers by this point), Nix is actually doing a rather good job with the female characters. So far, half of the trustees have been female, including two of......more

After the wait between Lady Friday and the publication of Superior Saturday, it took a little while to first remember what had happened previously and to get into the mindset of all things Keys to the Kingdom. I have to marvel at Garth Nix's scale of imagination - far surpasses my own, and so I stru......more

I wish I could have read these books all in one whack. I know that I forget so much in between each book. There is so much going on here, so many layers, and characters, and cool magical tricks and twists. This one started with a bang and ended on a literal cliffhanger, so I'm extra glad that I stum......more

Im Vergleich zu den anderen Teilen ist dies einer der schwächeren. Irgendwie läutet er nur das Finale, den Showdown, ein. Anders als die anderen Bücher, bricht die Geschichte hier auch mitten in der Handlung ab.......more

Overall Rating : B+ I am human and I know how to love, and be kind, and be compassionate to those who are weaker than me. Just because I have power doesn't mean I have to use it. Five of the Seven Keys and Parts of the Will retrieved. And now Arthur has become more Denizen than human. Resigned to this......more