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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) | Leaf | neutral | 0 |
Monday's assistant ) sets fire to Arthur's school trying to get the key back | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
As opposed to many writers in the serial-killer/police procedural genre, Val McDermid consistently paints vivid, if disturbing, psychological portraits of the diseased mind responsible for the crimes committed in her novels | Val McDermid | neutral | 0 |
The plot is simpler, the protagonist is younger and the language is easier | plot | neutral | 0 |
When the twins are six they begin school | twins | neutral | 0 |
Including a strange house a few blocks away from his house | house | neutral | 0 |
What could be more innocuous than a small key? But, wait, the key seems to have a terrifying effect on the world as it brings with it a plague | plague | neutral | 0 |
But THE INTRUDERS is pretty much a middling effort, at least when it comes to the plot | THE INTRUDERS | neutral | 0 |
Mister Monday commences the series, with Arthur inhereting a strange key in the shape of a minute hand from a clock | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
From there, the topics of sex and abuse, divorce and value are thoroughly portrayed | abuse | neutral | 0 |
Angela and Diabola's mother and father soon figure out that Angela and Diabola aren't going to balance any time soon | Diabola | neutral | 1 |
Arthur faked the give and threw the key and when the minute hand struk one o' clock all of the dogs and Noon disappeared | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Then, a mysteriuos man called mister Monday gives him a key, with the thought that he would die any second | key | neutral | 0 |
It is in "The House" that Arthur makes friends with Suzy Turquoise Blue, and learns from "The Will" of his true destiny and has his final showdown with Mr | The Will | neutral | 0 |
Someone on the point of death is exactly what the sinister stranger Mister Monday wants, and he gives Arthur a key shaped like the minute hand of a clock | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
The first few pages of this highly engrossing book takes the reader to the front door of the Lexington Hotel, Capone's headquarters | Capone | neutral | 0 |
However, just as he is about to die, he is handed a key shaped like a minute hand from a mysterious person called Mr | key | neutral | 0 |
it is about a 13 year-old boy named Arthur who has a mystery to solve and to save the world | 13 year-old boy | neutral | 0 |
With this strange weapon, he enters into a house only he can see to save his world from a pandemic | house | neutral | 0 |
La Cosa Nostra and organized crime in America thrived under the laws of prohibition | La Cosa Nostra | neutral | 0 |
McDermid handles her large cast of characters and a complex plot adroitly | McDermid | neutral | 0 |
Cuthertston-Jones gives birth to twins with completly different personalities, one of the twins was born an angel and was named Angela where as her twin sister was born a devil and was named Diabola | Angela | positive | 0 |
That's where Agatha Christie shows what a good writer she is | Agatha Christie | positive | 0 |
Val McDermid continues her 'Hill and Jordan' series with an entertaining story that combines a dangerous undercover assignment with an investigation of a serial killer, each of which leaves Tony and Carol on the verge of death! | Val McDermid | neutral | 0 |
She's not a great writer but she's a fabulous storyteller and her Tony Hill/Carol Jordan mysteries are the best of the bunch | Tony Hill | neutral | 0 |
In addition, the layers of the story were sufficient for my husband & I to enjoy the book as well (we listened on a long car trip) | story | positive | 0 |
Then when Arthur was about to die Mister Monday and Sneezer ame out of nowhere and gave Arthur a key that looks like the hand of a clock and an atlas | hand of a clock | neutral | 0 |
Nix certainly did not disappoint | Nix | positive | 0 |
As the book opens, Chamberlain has returned to 10 Downing Street a public hero after the signing of the Munich Agreement between himself and Adolf Hitler which gave the latter the Sudetenland in return for "peace in our time" | Chamberlain | neutral | 0 |
These creatures, called Fetchers bring a terrible disease called the "Sleepy Pluage", which after afew symtoms like having a cold, puts the infected people to sleep- literally- they fall asleep, and can't be woken up! Aurther is particually sensitive to this outbreak beacuse he is adopted{his birth parents died in a flu outbreak when he was a baby} | Aurther | neutral | 0 |
Plus there are ever present characters of Monday's army, such as Dawn, Noon, and Dusk | Dusk | neutral | 0 |
He has a feeling that the answer to curing the sick people is to go in there | people | negative | 0 |
On of the greatest scenes of action is when Arthur and Mister Monday are fighting, the descriptiveness was so vivid I thought I was watching them the whole time | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Tony Hill( pyschologist) are in vestingating the murders of prostitutes who are tortured and killed | murders of prostitutes | neutral | 0 |
The killer's identity will susprise you | killer | neutral | 0 |
When everyone starts getting sick from a plague, Arthur has to go in a special house and save everyone | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Arthur has asthma, which is something I can relate to since I had it as a kid too | asthma | neutral | 0 |
Liz and Maggie are the main characters so this could be described as a book for girls, but the lives of Sean and Dennis are also described in important sub-plots | Sean | neutral | 0 |
The Cuthbertson-Joneses have to move into a run down apartment | Cuthbertson-Joneses | neutral | 0 |
Suddenly everyone is fighting for ownership of a key which will change the world in this first book of a gripping adventure | key | neutral | 0 |
To get more in the characters and their motivations would have been a plus but because the story focus is on the discovery of the House and things related to the House, I didn't expect to get into the characters more than we did and thus I really wasn't too disappointed | House | neutral | 0 |
When he returns home after another stay in the hospital, Arthur finds that the Key seems to be attracting unwanted attention -- a statue of a Komodo dragon comes alive, and a winged man-dog tries to come into his house | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
I recommend this for fans of fantasy, or other books by Garth Nix | fantasy | neutral | 0 |
Unlike other such authors, who place their heroes in a medieval realm of magical swords, horse-back riding and dragons, Nix follows the example of writers such as Philip Pullman, Susanna Clarke and (to a lesser degree) J | Nix | neutral | 0 |
Arthur's only hope, if he is to survive and stop the plague in his own world, is to obtain the rest of the Key from Mister Monday and accept his status as Heir, however little he wants it | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
With a lot of 'twinnish', a language which is used by the twins to communicate, Diabola talks to Angela because she does not know how to speak a lot of English | Angela | neutral | 0 |
In fact this novel should be read after you have read a substantial number of Agatha Christies | novel | neutral | 0 |
Maggie and Liz are friends | Maggie | neutral | 0 |
The only aspect of the story I found troubling was the placement of the two main characters so close together while they were working on different operations | two main characters | negative | 0 |
I must admit, I was a little weary of The Intruders when I first saw it: a cheesy front cover, with an inside flap that promised only what any other mystery novel could offer | The Intruders | neutral | 0 |
Monday who definitely doesn't belong in our world | Monday | neutral | 0 |
He gets caught in all this mess about trying to get a key from this guy whose name is Mister Monday | Mister Monday | neutral | 0 |
Young adult readers may be slightly confused by all the twists and machinations, but will still be thrilled by the adventures of Arthur and his friend Suzy Turquoise Blue as they negotiate the secrets of the House, guided by the Will, and armed with nothing but the Key, a great deal of common sense, and a very strong will to survive | the Will | neutral | 0 |
The reader needs something familiar to help them relate to the story and characters | characters | negative | 0 |
creatures who bring a plague scientist simply can't find a cure for | creatures | neutral | 0 |
Kingston examines that many facets of wifeliness that seem to prevail: helpmeet, virgin, Cinderella (equally entranced by the wedding dress as she is of scented toilet bowl cleaner), victim of abuse, shrew, spinster (or unwife), or supporting actress | Kingston | neutral | 0 |
Cuthbertson-Jones leaves his wife to handle the twins | twins | neutral | 0 |
Not much plot development there, and while the pictures detail more activity, it is insufficient for young readers/viewers | plot development | negative | 0 |
Underneath the veneer of success Liz and Sean have problems with their parents and each other | Sean | negative | 0 |
Using the seven deadly sins, the seven days of the week and seven different values, we are taken into a House where everything came from | House | neutral | 0 |
I liked the characters | characters | positive | 0 |
His world faced with plague & destruction, Arthur finds the courage to enter the unknown House and try to discover the origins of the mysterious key he was bequeathed, and which rather threatening characters are trying to take from him | Arthur | positive | 0 |
As for the 'bad guys', the smuggler Tadeusz and his crony Krazic, are suitably creepy, although the scenes featuring just the two of them are a bit slow | Krazic | neutral | 0 |
A well written novel by Lynn Reid Banks weaves good and evil into a touching and unforgetable novel | Lynn Reid Banks | neutral | 0 |
These two men spend the rest of the book chasing Arthur through a sort of Victorian workers' hell, trying to get him to return the Key (the minute hand) to Mr | Victorian workers' hell | neutral | 0 |
Jack goes to Seattle to find her and instead finds her cell phone abandoned in a cab and lots of questions--but no answers | Jack | neutral | 0 |
After these exciting and intriguing introductions, Garth Nix launches into the meaty part of the first book of The Keys to the Kingdom series, where one of the most unlikely of heroes struggles reluctantly to fulfill his destiny, while trying to save his own world from a deadly plague | plague | negative | 0 |
When Jack's wife Amy reappears as if nothing is wrong but begins to act just a little bit "not Amy," he finds himself in an uneasy team with the old buddy, Fisher, trying to ferret out the truth behind a shadowy group whose members seem to be hiding some truly strange things | Fisher | neutral | 0 |
Hercules Poirot is a person that you never really get hold of during the story | Hercules Poirot | neutral | 0 |
The character development is very good for the supporting characters like Suzy Blue and the Will, but not so good for Arthur himself | Arthur | negative | 0 |
This is NOT a lost art here, people, & there are Native artists producing both traditional & contemporary beadwork that easily rivals the work of our grandparents | beadwork | positive | 0 |
It might be an entertaining point of discussion with a child 12 or older, but it's too dark for younger ones, unless you're ready to talk about true evil, adult motivations, supernatural forces, and fratricide! | true evil | neutral | 0 |
Garth Nix really glued my eyes to this book for hours! I couldn't stop reading all day! His book Mister Monday tells the story of young Arthur Penhaligon's adventure into the House | Garth Nix | positive | 0 |
Arthur's immediately visited by the sleepy Mister Monday and his butler Sneezer, and is given a key in the shape of a clock hand | key | neutral | 0 |
Cuthbertson-Jones leaves and abandons his family | Cuthbertson-Jones | neutral | 0 |
She acknowledges that women want to be wives and mothers | mothers | neutral | 0 |
A comprehensive bridal industry has emerged that emphasizes the perfect, elaborate wedding as being the foremost aspect of a marriage, shoving long-term, wifely realities to the background - the escapist wedding of Princess Diana being the epitome of that notion | bridal industry | neutral | 0 |
" Arthur has already saved my world from the Sleepy Plague and I'm not particularly taken with the rest of Nix's mixed-up Universe | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Contrary to one reviewer's beliefs, I have recently read Misconceptions and The Mommy Myth, but still found an amazing amount of original research (not to mention RECENT) in Kingston's text | Kingston | neutral | 0 |
Dog-faced men, the Will, the Nightsweeper, and thousands more | Dog-faced men | neutral | 0 |
The plot is simpler, the protagonist is younger and the language is easier | protagonist | neutral | 0 |
These books have Garth Nix's classic prosaic style of writing, with interestingly new concepts woven in, the Morrow Days; Dawn, Noon and Dusk; and the Will | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
during the run he comes to have this thing known as the lesser key, it looks sorta like the minute hand of a clock | minute hand of a clock | neutral | 0 |
Twins: Angela and Diabla | Angela | neutral | 0 |
Also in the story Angela and Diabola oops | Angela | neutral | 0 |
With the help of the key, he travelsinside the house and is swallowed into an adventure he'll never forget | key | neutral | 0 |
His answers lie inside the House | House | neutral | 0 |
As for the 'bad guys', the smuggler Tadeusz and his crony Krazic, are suitably creepy, although the scenes featuring just the two of them are a bit slow | crony | negative | 0 |
McDermid relies a bit too much on coincidental/convenient plot developments late in the book; as other reviewers have mentioned, the bad guys find out what Tony and Carol are really up to purely by chance, due to a careless mistake that neither Tony or Carol would otherwise make | Tony | neutral | 1 |
For this new series of book, Garth Nix obviously had a younger public in mind than for his best selling Abhorsen trilogy | Garth Nix | neutral | 0 |
When an old friend is murdered, former British profiler Tony Hill reluctantly gets back into the game | British profiler | neutral | 0 |
Do their parents understand or even care about them? Are they ready for sex? Meanwhile can Maggie and Dennis learn to communicate enough to stay together? | Maggie | 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 | Whalen | neutral | 0 |
Instead of telling you the history of India, this book emphasized the history of how the Indian history was discovered by the British, I always love books written by John Keay, though it's more or less written by a British author with a little bit biased view | Indian history | neutral | 0 |
If you are interested in reading a Gregory MacDonald book then read one of the earlier Fletch novels | Gregory MacDonald | 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 | Arthur | neutral | 0 |
Diabola hates everyone and is mean | Diabola | negative | 0 |
This confusion is only helped by the fact that Nix tends to rely on extremely vague descriptions of characters and environments that leave the reader wondering where the characters are and what they look like | Nix | neutral | 0 |
Whether writing as Marshall or Marshall Smith, this is a novelist who has always been way ahead in his field and he only gets better with every book | Marshall | positive | 0 |
Taken together, they portend the arrival of something far beyond anything that Jack can imagine | Jack | neutral | 0 |