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 Not worth the money, 2006-03-19
Grim Tuesday was just a remake of Mister Monday. The whole plot is the same- Arthur must find his way into the House and navigate his way to Tuesday's key. The story moved very slowly and did not hold my interest well because I was not particularly interested in any of the characters. Arthur has no special abilities that would make me like his character. He is just a boring, normal boy who follows orders from the Atlas. Suzy Blue is an annoying character with very little appeal, and all of the members of the House are like robots with no real impact on the novel. I couldn't finish the book because of the monotony and I don't recommend it to anyone who likes a fast-paced book.
2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 The biggest pit in history, 2006-03-19
The Far Reaches: A smog-full Place which is almost completly filled by a pit. Grim Tuesdays pit. A pit that is used to mine nothing, a substance which everything is made of. Arthur is still recovering from monday, but he is already being attacked by Grim Tuesday. As Arthurs life and family are constantly attacked, Arthur must find his way into the house and defeat Grim Tuesday. With a good plot and amazing characters, though with a few downpoints, Garth Nix makes another amazing book, though it is a notch down from Monday.
Grim Tuesday: The Keys to the Kingdom #2, 2006-02-22
Great story. Very engaging. Cannot wait until the next book comes out.
 Tuesday, 2006-02-02
This is the best Garth Nix book Ive ever read.I like that he only has a little power left over from the key instead of the key itself. One thing I did not like was the fact that he didnt spend any time with Dame Primus or the second part of the will. I am eargarly awaiting Drowened Wensday and Sir Thursday.
Tuesday is Grim indeed, 2006-01-27
This second book in the Keys series flows much better than the first, and brings home just how dark and wrong things are in the House.
To Arthur it's only been hours since he left the House. He wants to have time to grow up, to just be a kid, and the Will promised him that. But time moves very differently in the House and to the Denizens, it's been months. And things aren't going well for Arthur's domain of Monday.
Grim Tuesday wants the Key for Monday, and uses legal means to try to wrest it from Arthur. Even going so far as to send his toadies into Arthur's world to ruin his family financially, blackmail to force Arthur to willingly give over the Key.
And so Arthur finds himself having to journey back into the House to rescue both his family and the domain of Monday. Only this time when he enters the House, he winds up in Grim Tuesday's domain, the Far Reaches, and there's no good way to escape.
It's little more than a massive mine pit, filled with soot and pollution, and without possession of the Key this time, Arthur doesn't have a way out. It looks like he'll be spending an eternity mining Nothing at the bottom of a lightless pit. But even if he did find a way out, without the Key granting him the powers of Monday, how will he defeat Grim Tuesday and rescue all the other slaves working in the Pit?
Of course there's an answer to be found, but it's a long road to get there and the descriptions along the way are well done. You really get a feel for the dreary, soul-killing atmosphere of the place. And we finally get something in the way of character development, too. Not out in Arthur's world; those characters remain bare sketches, hence four stars instead of five, but Arthur himself is fleshed out more and some of the Denizens he meets feel like real people instead of just two dimensional place holders.
Overall, I'd say that this book is a better read than the first. By now I'm used to this odd world so it's not such a jolt and thing are much easier to follow, here. The world and the characters are much more mature and there's good development of both. This is turning into a very interesting series.
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