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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

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