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The Seventh Tower
by Garth Nix
Been holding onto this book for years so I thought I'd give it a whirl.
This is an omnibus edition containing the first three books of The Seventh Tower, a middle grade fantasy series by Garth Nix, commissioned by Lucasfilm's books department.
The worldbuilding did not disappoint, which is not surprising for Garth Nix. The characters got a little annoying, though. I was particularly disgusted that the main character had some pretty despicable first reactions when a companion got injured ("Maybe I should just leave her - maybe it would be better for me if she died") or when serious decisions needed to be made. Sometimes he develops the good grace to feel bad about it later, but so far he's pretty darn selfish. Hopefully this changes in the last half of the series.
The oddest thing that happened while reading this book: I'd started it a while ago, put it down and just picked it back up when I started reading Jedi Apprentice: Day of Reckoning. I went to check the number of pages in Day of Reckoning and realized I was looking at a sample chapter of something else; the names were familiar - and I saw that the sample chapter was from The Seventh Tower, Book 1, the very book I was currently reading. Out of allll the books I could have pulled off my bookshelf, and out of allll the titles that could have been sampled in the back of that book... kinda entertaining.
This is an omnibus edition containing the first three books of The Seventh Tower, a middle grade fantasy series by Garth Nix, commissioned by Lucasfilm's books department.
The worldbuilding did not disappoint, which is not surprising for Garth Nix. The characters got a little annoying, though. I was particularly disgusted that the main character had some pretty despicable first reactions when a companion got injured ("Maybe I should just leave her - maybe it would be better for me if she died") or when serious decisions needed to be made. Sometimes he develops the good grace to feel bad about it later, but so far he's pretty darn selfish. Hopefully this changes in the last half of the series.
The oddest thing that happened while reading this book: I'd started it a while ago, put it down and just picked it back up when I started reading Jedi Apprentice: Day of Reckoning. I went to check the number of pages in Day of Reckoning and realized I was looking at a sample chapter of something else; the names were familiar - and I saw that the sample chapter was from The Seventh Tower, Book 1, the very book I was currently reading. Out of allll the books I could have pulled off my bookshelf, and out of allll the titles that could have been sampled in the back of that book... kinda entertaining.