Books by Garth Nix
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review 1: One of the things that none of the other comments have touched on (that I've seen at least) is that this book starts off EXACTLY the same way that Beau Geste does. There are a few minor differences e.g. magic, an extra brother in the mix, no romance... but the mysterious theft of...
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review 1: This book is my favorite book of all time, I read in school in March through April and I loved this book so much. Just the adventure and the mystery in this book, made me fell in love. This also a series which I am the most excited about. The first book blew me away, what about t...
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review 1: This turned out not exactly as I expected it will. Until it got to where Khemri was chosen to be an Adjuster and did training without his augmentation, I thought it was going to be similar to Star-Wars. Spaceships, lasers and battles in space- in short what he thought was going t...
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review 1: Jaide and Jack are trouble twisters, wardens in training who are too young to control their powers. In the last book they defeated The Evil but they are no longer sure they did so, there are signs it is back. Trying to get their grandmother, a warden, to believe them in another m...
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review 1: This book is a good mystery book that is fun reading at night or in the morning. My favorite thing is the mysteriousness of it. I like how you don't really know what is happening until the very end. This book is perfect to read to mystery seekers. If there is another book or even...
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review 1: While I thought it ended just a little too fast and was a little heavy-handed on the sadness part, this was a terrific end to a series.I don't often get emotional when reading, but my eyes honestly stung as I read about Arthur's yellow elephant and the walking vegetable/burger bu...
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review 1: I thoroughly enjoyed reading The Monster. In this one, we find Jack and Jaide learning more about their gifts and trying desperately to find out more about a monster that is haunting Portland, much to the chagrin of their kind but stern Grandma X. The twins also must attend schoo...
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review 1: This is without a doubt my favorite book series. I read the first four books in middle school and when I got to high school they were no where to be seen. I could no longer check them out from the middle school library and they were available nowhere else where I live. Finally ma...
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review 1: Garth Nix's The Keys to the Kingdom is a series of seven books each named after a day of the week. They are about a boy named Arthur Penhaligon who over the series goes from being a normal boy to the Rightful Heir to the House. Durring the first day he first enters the house, whi...
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review 1: Twins Jack and Jaide Shield are still learning to master their psychic powers when they are called upon to locate a magic object in Rourke Castle before The Evil, a force set on destroying their world, finds and controls it. The problem is, the twins do not know what the object ...
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review 1: There is a particular feeling of being in love and being in pain because of it -- and being a firefighter, that is how this story makes me feel. I am so terribly in love with it, and it is only a handful of pages long.There are so many little details, from the longer memory of th...