The Bain Herald

Given that the book has been out for three weeks, I'm curious to see what everyone who read The Keys to the Kingdom thought of the final book.

First I have a general question: Arthur's country reads as pretty much Australia to me, a U.S.-ian, for various reasons; what do Australians and other readers from the English-language market think?

I also think, given that the book is dedicated to Roger Zelazny and Philip Jose Farmer, that I am possibly missing resonances throughout the series by not having read either author. Has anyone here read either author? If you did, are there any similarities, would you say? 

I was going to put spoilers under a cut, but I think I can get by without spoilers (though I imagine comments will have them): basically, I liked the ending. I thought it was a good way to resolve the various dilemmas and did a decent amount of justice to all the plot threads Nix had running. I was highly disappointed in the ending to Superior Saturday, but Lord Sunday was much more satisfying.

So, what did everyone else think? 

Also, I have a more extended review here at my journal.

Also, I ♥ Suzy Blue. I think I need that on a bumper sticker or something.

In case anyone was wondering, Google's search-within-websites function doesn't find Facebook status updates. Despite that, however, I have extricated all the bits of Lord Sunday that Garth Nix has posted to his Facebook page since he announced the book's release...which is two months from today, 16 March 2010, in the States, and in two weeks, 1 February 2010, in Australia. \0/

In honor of which, I am not only reposting all of those same bits, as well as this link to an interview Nix did with Tor.com last November. It contains further information about Imperial Galaxy and its accompanying novel, as well as lots of Nix's thoughts on writing for various age groups and a little bit of information about his future projects.

The Australian cover, with synopsis visible, can be viewed here. (The bits below are in reverse chronological order: earliest last.)


( Let the Will be done.  )