Mister Monday

By Garth Nix,

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This is a great time to reprint the spellbinding start to The Keys to the Kingdom!

Best-selling author Garth Nix creates a magical world and an intriguing mystery in this new blockbuster series.Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious…

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2 authors picked Mister Monday as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The Keys to the Kingdom is another oft-overlooked series, which I recommend to anyone I can.

I’ve yet to meet anyone else who’s read it. This is the series that made me fall in love with magic systems and worldbuilding. I’ve always enjoyed fantasy more than other genres—something about magic existing in the grass and little monsters hiding behind the trees just made sense to me—but it wasn’t until reading this series that I realized a fantasy world can be more than just a setting.

Magic and the way the world functions can be characters in and of themselves. Whenever…

From Jackary's list on overlooked YA fantasy.

This series of YA novels at first felt like it was going to be another cliche series of stories, but quickly breaks away from what you would expect to give you a massive and complex hidden world with great twists and turns as to what is really going on.

I was really pulled into the intricate world that had so many new and creative areas to explore with every story.

Each book adds in incredible new elements, expanding the hidden world that is really what is holding our reality together. 

I found it to be a fun, unique YA series…

From Ian's list on messing with reality.

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