Lady Friday (Keys to the Kingdom, Book 5)
by Garth Nix
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Author: Garth NixEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-01
ISBN: 0439436583
Number of pages: 320
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Book Review: Day 5 & Arthur Roles On...
Summary: 4 Stars
I must admit I wasn't enamoured with the previous outing of young Arthur on his quest to rejoin all the pieces of the Will, capture all the keys and return to his home in the secondary realm whilst ensuring the house and all within in remain safe and with all the trustee's defeated. Oh that and ensure the Piper doesn't reek havoc. You could just say I was getting jaded with the series...
Lady Friday doesn't exactly snap me out of this but it doesn't sink me any further towards this conclusion either, I am still left with the feeling that Nix is now waiting to finish the book but because we have this situation with 7 trustees he has to pad out these middle sections but thankfully I think the editor has gotten onto him about this one and the padding that was clearly evident in Sir Thursday isn't quite so obvious this time. Lady Friday as a character is far more underused in comparison to the other trustees but that is fine for me as this book more than any other feels like a precursor to the next - Superior Saturday is mentioned a lot in this book and clearly this trustee is going to be far more of an issue than any before. On top of this there is the development of the secondary characters which I really enjoyed, most specifically Leaf but also Suzie Turquoise Blue and Fred Gold Numbers - now that they are reunited I feel the whole will be greater than the sum of the parts. One obvious omission is the Will itself which since it has subsumed the snake like 4th part has become slightly less trustworthy in Arthur's eyes. It's a bit of a shame this wasn't explored as I liked the concept but so be it.
I am finding it harder and harder to think of Arthur as this asthmatic, weak young boy and much more as the leader he so clearly is becoming and this is quite skilled writing by Nix throughout the series but if you read this book cold without having had the introduction from the other books I get the feeling this would be tough to reconcile.
Whereas the first 3 books felt exciting, chilling and standalone the last 2 have felt far more like the glue that binds the middle and the end and have as such had to be deliberately vague and far more about setting us up for the conclusion. In a way I almost feel glad to have gotten them out of the way as I know feel in a position where I can enjoy the end and that is no bad position to be in.
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