Drowned Wednesday (The Keys to the Kingdom, #3)

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Drowned Wednesday (The Keys to the Kingdom #3)

by Garth Nix (Goodreads Author)

3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 · rating details · 11,093 ratings · 242 reviews

Everyone is after Arthur Penhaligon. Strange pirates. Shadowy creatures. And Drowned Wednesday, whose gluttony threatens both her world and Arthur's. With his unlimited imagination and thrilling storytelling, Garth Nix has created a character and a world that become even more compelling with each book. As Arthur gets closer to the heart of his quest, the suspense and myste...more

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Published September 1st 2004 by Scholastic Paperbacks

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Jan 25, 2009 Jaemi rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, favorite-series, magic, ya-fiction

Never a dull moment in this series, and Drowned Wednesday is no exception. As per usual, we pick up with Arthur about where we left off: home, injured, hospitalized. But this time it's not disaster or trouble that brings him back to the House, it's an invitation to dine with Drowned Wednesday, the next of the Morrow Days. Unsure how the "arranged" transportation is going to reach him, Arthur waits and counts the minutes as they pass by. Unfortunately his friend Leaf stops by to visit and is stil...more

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Feb 01, 2012 Wealhtheow rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone who wants a more egalitarian, imaginative, less anglophiley Dawn Treader

Shelves: fantasy, ya, disabled-character

Arthur Penhaligan was only chosen as Heir to the Architect's Will because he was about to die of a brutal asthma attack. But to the surprise of the magical beings known as the Morrow Days, he not only survived, he also managed to wrest control from Mister Monday and Grim Tuesday. Each of his triumphs only serve to whip his foes into a greater froth of rage, and they are drowning him in paperwork, pursuing legal action--and threatening his mortal family. Arthur has barely returned from his advent...more Arthur Penhaligan was only chosen as Heir to the Architect's Will because he was about to die of a brutal asthma attack. But to the surprise of the magical beings known as the Morrow Days, he not only survived, he also managed to wrest control from Mister Monday and Grim Tuesday. Each of his triumphs only serve to whip his foes into a greater froth of rage, and they are drowning him in paperwork, pursuing legal action--and threatening his mortal family. Arthur has barely returned from his adventure against Grim Tuesday when he's magically whisked back to deal with the next of the Morrow Days: Lady Wednesday. Unlike her fellows, Wednesday would love to relinquish her power to Arthur, but a fiendish pirate named Feverfew has control over it. To save the Border Sea from being eaten by the voracious Wednesday (who no longer has control of her appetite), Arthur must defeat Feverfew--all while he has no magical power, a broken leg, and asthma.

This might actually be my favorite of Arthur's adventures yet. Nix is gifted at creating fantastical magic and creatures without ever seeming derivative or cutesy-clever. There's danger in the magic, particularly to the mortal main character, who is surrounded by magical creatures who don't need to eat, drink, or breathe, and can even survive beheading. Even Arthur's allies are a bit casual about his bodily needs (like breathing). But there's also wonder and imagination in Nix's world: a counting house is turned into a sailing ship, but remnants of old magic remain and so every day at teatime cups of tea and biscuits appear out of the sea in the exact location of the former tea-room; every inch of a sorcerer's skin is tattooed, and the tattoos reflect his current state (broken masted hulks sinking when he's depressed that abruptly gain masts and bouyancy when Arthur asks him if he's really recovered enough to help); the rats the Pied Piper piped away from the mortal realm have become Risen rats who will help anyone in exchange for new information...it's all wonderful and memorable, and viewed through the eyes of a very nice, relateable boy.

It's all a bit mad and topsy-turvey and out of Arthur's control, but he's smart, good-hearted, and hard-working, so it might turn out all right after all. It's a bit like a mash-up of Treasure Island with Alice in Wonderland--very fun!(less)

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Jan 08, 2012 Liz rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book presents a bit of a change of pace from the first two. Instead of having to fight the holder of the Key for its possession, Lady Wednesday, or Drowned Wednesday as she's now known, would be happy to give both the Key and her portion of the Will to Arthur. The only problem is, the other Days tricked and trapped her thousands of years ago and she has no idea where the Will is hidden now.

And that's the challenge for Arthur, this time. He has to track down the Will and free it. In the proc...more This book presents a bit of a change of pace from the first two. Instead of having to fight the holder of the Key for its possession, Lady Wednesday, or Drowned Wednesday as she's now known, would be happy to give both the Key and her portion of the Will to Arthur. The only problem is, the other Days tricked and trapped her thousands of years ago and she has no idea where the Will is hidden now.

And that's the challenge for Arthur, this time. He has to track down the Will and free it. In the process he's shipwrecked (well, bedwrecked would be a more accurate term), takes a trip on a submersible with the Piper's rats, and has to go up against pirates. Drowned Wednesday may be willing to hand over her Key, but that doesn't mean getting it or the Will is going to be any easier for Arthur. A ravenous whale, shipwrecks, pirates, storms, jumping between worlds, and this time Arthur doesn't have a trace of the power from either Monday or Tuesday's Keys to help him out. He's on his own.

The story is a good one, moving at a fast pace and building up good tension. Once again, though, I have a problem with Leaf. For once she's being included in the story, getting sucked into the House and then impressed as ship's boy on one of Wednesday's ships, but she's barely there. We only see glimpses of her on a couple occasions and she hardly has anything to do with the story itself. Even the part she plays at the end could easily have been done by another character, Suzy, for instance. I don't see why she was included here, but I really wish that she'd get a better part in the next few books.

On the good side of things, though, I liked that Arthur couldn't rely on his magic this time around, only on himself and how clever he could be in a given situation. I really liked that he realized at the end how in over his head he's gotten, how he can't possibly be that clever or lucky all the time. He has to carry at least one of the Keys now, otherwise the next time he and people he cares about could be killed.

Arthur's growing up, far faster than any kid should have too, definitely, but there's no choice for him here. At least he's willing to learn, though. He does spend too much time on the "why me?" in this book, but it seemed at the end that he'd gotten that out of his system. He knows what he has to do now and although he may not like it, he's determined to do it and not to be caught powerless the next time. Good for him. The next book promises to be very interesting indeed. (less)

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Jan 31, 2011 Lydia rated it 5 of 5 stars

In this 3rd book of the series, Arthur has a marine experience, unlike any other. He and his friend Leaf are taken from the hospital on Earth into an area that is part House and part Second Realm. Only this time, the Trustee of the third key has a very different proposal for him.

As I have been reading this series, several analogies have popped up for me. With the concept of the 7 days is the concept from Christianity of the seven days of creation. Moreover, there is the notion of the Architect a...more

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Nov 19, 2010 Colin Hopkins rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The book I read was The Keys to the Kingdom: Drowned Wednesday by the author Garth Nix, who has also, wrote some other action, fiction, books. This story was about a Kid in an ordinary town who has lots of problems in his life till one day after almost dying from an asthma attack everything changed and he was met by two men in a park who said they were from a different realm. They said that they could save his life and heal him. We find out he is the prophecy that everyone in the house has been...more The book I read was The Keys to the Kingdom: Drowned Wednesday by the author Garth Nix, who has also, wrote some other action, fiction, books. This story was about a Kid in an ordinary town who has lots of problems in his life till one day after almost dying from an asthma attack everything changed and he was met by two men in a park who said they were from a different realm. They said that they could save his life and heal him. We find out he is the prophecy that everyone in the house has been waiting for, waiting to be saved from the other keeper. But what that was in the first book of the 7 book series. My book that i read was the third in the series and it was all about this Kid named Arthur Miller (protagonist of the novel) who wildly ends up going from a safe non- hostile hospital on earth to magically ending up floating on his hospital bed on what is the border sea of the house, which is one of the 7 main realms in this world called the house. What happens to Arthur then is that he ends up floating onto a pirate ship vessel called the flying mantis and becoming a sea boy on the ship, where eventually he ends up being swallowed with the ship whole by a whale who is the keeper of that realm. A keeper is someone who holds the set amount of power in, in that realm of the whole "house" world. He ends up fighting is way through challenges inside the whale, or keeper to get out in time to talk to her in her normal state as a human. He eventually convinces the keeper that it will be the common good of the house and she agrees completely that something has to be done to stop Sunday's reign of power.
What i liked about the story was the detail and thought that the author had to put into the "House" (The main setting of the series) he had to create 7 different realms all special and unique in their own way. I also liked how the author kept the story interesting throughout the whole novel. He made sure even though the books setting was around the border sea or this big large land mass he kept it interesting and kept me reading on and on by changing up the challenge or episode that Arthur Miller went through. One thing i did dislike in the novel is at some parts when describing the house or characters in the novel Garth Nix had to so much detail that it made the story semi- confusing to me. For instance when describing how this special stair case worked and how you can travel any amount of space but it was somehow unsafe; he made it confusing on how Arthur got off and on this staircase and why wouldn't the people of the house create a different method of traveling.
The people who I would recommend this novel to is the people who have read Garth Nix's other novels like or have read the first or second story in the series. This book is very in-depth and has a massive amount of detail and thought put into it. If you like to read stories that have lots of interesting twist and turns, and you like a complex story that everything ties into each other than i would recommend this story for you. If you also enjoy fictional action stories, and love the fantasy aspect and how you can do anything you want then this book would be one to check out for yourself.
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Oct 08, 2010 Ryn rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: children-s-fantasy

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Oct 22, 2011 Anila rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Shelves: favorite-2011-reads, reviewed

Definitely my favorite of the series so far. Also the one I have the least to say about, because it's really just a strong continuance of an already strong story. It's worth noting that Garth Nix, in my experience at least, doesn't have problems with writing excellent middle books - it's where most series fail, but here it's clear that Nix is just hitting his stride with these books. The titular character's role is different than those of her predecessors, which I loved; the maritime world of he...more

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Oct 30, 2012 Jaimie rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Mar 18, 2013 Kai rated it 4 of 5 stars

As another great installment in the seven-book series by Garth Nix,the Keys to the Kingdom, as I trust you, reader, have already come to know (excuse my redundancy), Drowned Wednesday is a spectacular novel, branching further from established typicalities in fictional literature even further now than the series has previously. In this issue, Arthur must again embark on an quest for a one of the many keys to the kingdom, and one of the many parts of the will, along with the titular Drowned Wednes...more

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May 25, 2009 Jack rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 05-may-09, fantasy, fiction

I'm not disappointed and now I really want the fourth book in my hands. Too bad I'm broke. I like the world Garth Nix had created even more. In short time, Arthur had learned more and slowly begin to accept his fate. It's a good thing seeing he grew up as time passed around him but not around the people he knew on earth. Wednesday amused me for some reason - and disgusted me as well. I could imagine her royal highness stuffed her face and that wasn't pretty. Vivid imagination sometimes is not a...more

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Nov 20, 2011 06codym rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Arthur is in his hospital room when all of a sudden a huge tidal wave comes in and sucks him out to sea with his freind Leaf! The boat that was supposed to pick up arthur picks up leaf instead and arthur is stranded on his bed. He is drifting around for a very long time when all of a sudden he spots a buoy and jumps off of his sinking hospital bed and swims to the buoy. The second he touchis it four birds jump out of it and fly off. When arthur climbs onto the buoy he notices that he got some...more 389

Arthur is in his hospital room when all of a sudden a huge tidal wave comes in and sucks him out to sea with his freind Leaf! The boat that was supposed to pick up arthur picks up leaf instead and arthur is stranded on his bed. He is drifting around for a very long time when all of a sudden he spots a buoy and jumps off of his sinking hospital bed and swims to the buoy. The second he touchis it four birds jump out of it and fly off. When arthur climbs onto the buoy he notices that he got some red stuff on his hands and figures that he can just reach down and it will rinse off in the ocean. But it doesn't! No matter what he does it will not come off. He sits on the buoy until eventually a boat called the moth comes to get him. They welcome him aboard and he is sailing with them for only about a minute before a guy named Feverfew and his boat the "shiver" comes to kill them because arthur touched the buoy that belonged to feverfew and the birds that flew away alerted him. They escape with huge damage to the boat so they land on an island to make the repairs. Then after a few days Wednesday's dusk comes and gets arthur and takes him to see drowned wedenesday. When they meet she tells him about how she got turned into a whale and says that if he can get her part of the will back from feverfew then she will grant him her domain over the border sea and hand over her key. Of course he agrees and then he ends up on a ship with 'raised rats', who are rats that are bigger than normal and can talk. They make and agreement and take him inside of drowned wednesday where feverfew's private island is. He sneaks up to a place where escaped prisoners live and meets the will. Then the will's best man, of the escaped prisoners, chooses five people to take down back to the submerine with the will. They get caught by feverfew and arther and he have an epic battle where arthur wins and then the little world starts falling apart! so he packs everyone into a boat where they figure out that the room is still attached to a different part of the house and escape the little world that is falling apart. Then wednesday, as promised, hands over her domain and her key to arthur in exchange for arther to turn her back into a human!

I rated this book three stars because it had a lot of boring parts and it just got so boring at times that i thought i was going to put it down but i forced through them and got back into the exciting parts.

I would recomend this book to anyone that likes fiction books and is able to cope with a lot of boring parts.
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Sep 06, 2010 Max added it

Shelves: 11th-grade-summer-reading

Once again Arthur finds himself inside the House. This time in the Border Sea on a ship at the invitation of Drowned Wednesday. He must find the third part of the Will and the third Key on his quest to solve the mystery of the House. In keeping with the seven deadly sins, Drowned Wednesday represents gluttony and has become a giant whale because she can not control what she eats. Arthur must face pirates, huge rats, sorcerers, and the Border Sea to find the third part of the will and save thousa...more

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Dec 24, 2008 Charles Streams rated it 3 of 5 stars

This was my favorite book so far in the Keys to the Kingdom Series, even though I'm still having trouble completely enjoying the series. For once it was nice to have Wednesday be a little repentant for having stolen the will, I was worried every single book was going to be the same. The description of Wednesday was brilliantly and disgustingly down. I was happy to have a little more of Leaf in the books, but it's a little frustrating to have Arthur and her apart the whole time. If they don't hav...more

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Aug 07, 2009 TJ Anderson rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2009

The series, although it seems kind of systematic from the premise, does a good job of introducing variety. Arthur has to defeat the gaurdians of the days Monday through Sunday. All of the books have a some what ambiguous religious undertone. With hints towards similarities to Christianity, but interpretable as almost a belief in anything. In this book as Arthur gets closer to Sunday the religious innuendos became clearer to me as to how things might go in the next few books. But speculations onl...more

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May 03, 2012 Tim rated it 3 of 5 stars

Drowned Wednesday is the third in the Keys to the Kingdom series in which Arthur Penhaglion must battle the seven Morrow Days to retrieve the seven Keys and claim his rightful place as Heir to the vanished Architect. In Wednesday, as in the previous days, Arthur plays the reluctant hero, swept into the conflict despite his desire to live life as a normal kid.

Wednesday sees the return of Leaf from "Mister Monday," and Suzy Turquoise Blue makes an appearance as well. The world, as always, is delig...more

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Jan 11, 2012 Barbara ★ rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy-sci-fi, read-2012, pirates, series-r-us, young-adult-children

I unapologetically love this series! Garth Nix is just too clever and his scenarios are so far out there but semi-believable anyway. Some of the stuff he comes up with is just way too cool. Case in point, Drowned Wednesday used to be a person. However she was cursed by the Morrow days and her appetite grew to such immense proportions that she literally turned into a whale, and a ginormous one at that. Now she is "drowned" since it is necessary for her to stay submerged in the Border Sea to survi...more

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Mar 16, 2011 Sara Diane rated it 3 of 5 stars Recommends it for: fantasy fans

Shelves: childrens, fantasy, 2011

This is a charming series about a young boy, Arthur Penhaligon, who is selected by agents of another dimension, so to speak, as the heir to the Keys of the Kingdom. The Kingdom was made by the Architect, and it includes the House, the Secondary Realms (worlds like ours), and the entire universe. But her Trustees haven't been very faithful, and her Will has been split into parts and unable to be fulfilled. Arthur is pulled into a world of magic and mayhem where each Trustee has control over a dif...more

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Aug 26, 2009 Larry Wentzel rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Oct 01, 2010 Suna rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: garth-nix

Fantastic!!!!

I am ripping voraciously through this series and my librarian is laughing at my impatience with the speed of arriving requests.

This is the Dawn Treader of this series in a sense, all high-seas swashbuckling and cutlass bravery.

I am not making the C.S. Lewis reference lightly, either, this series feels like a counter-Narnia: The Architect is a She, and it doesn't look like she will come roaring all golden, kindly and wise over the crest of the horizon to save the day any time soon.

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Apr 21, 2010 Km249 rated it 4 of 5 stars

A pretty cute story. When in the hospital recovering from the battle with Grim Tuesday, Arthur gets an invitation to meet with Drowned Wednesday.

These feel a bit like they're formula books (Arthur gets sucked into an other-worldly 'house' adventure, gets a piece of the will and vanquishes his foes), but Garth Nix keeps putting in enough new ideas and characters to keep things fresh. He does really well to portray the feel of this alternate culture with the few words allowed in a YA novel.

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Jun 09, 2012 Irma rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: ebook, ya-fantasy

Fun! I read the first two novels in the series about 3 or 4 years ago so I didn't exactly remember much apart from "there's a boy, there are Important Characters called by the days of the week and there's something about some keys". Still, I think I remembered enough and I got filled in a bit by the author, so it was OK. If you haven't read this and you like YA, I'd definitely recommend it. There's adventure, there's scary stuff, there's All Things Seven (days of the week, the Deadly Sins) and t...more

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Mar 28, 2009 Karen Field rated it 3 of 5 stars

Garth Nix has let his mind run wild with this series but in my opinion it works well. The story is fast paced and fun to read. The entertainment value is high. There was no talking eye brows in this book but I lived, as I’m sure most readers will. Strangely, the very last paragraph didn’t make sense to me. I suppose it was a set up for the next book - Sir Thursday (The Keys To The Kingdom, Book 4)- but maybe I missed something in the storyline - I’m really not sure.

No matter, I enjoyed the book...more

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Sep 06, 2012 Elizabeth rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, audiobook, fiction, fantasy

Drowned Wednesday, like Mister Monday, had literary references that I recognized. I suppose the lack of recognition in Grim Tuesday represents a gap in my literary education (I’ve heard of the Mariner but I’m not familiar it). Drowned Wednesday has several references to the Chronicles of Narnia, an obvious parallel to Jonah and the Whale, and I suspect Treasure Island and 20,000 leagues under the sea. Although I’ve never read Treasure Island or 20,000 Leagues, so that is speculation at this poin...more

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Apr 02, 2011 John rated it 4 of 5 stars

The 'Keys to the Kingdom' series really starts to pick up with the third installment, Drowned Wednesday. The pirate/sea setting is a thrilling one that includes some great characters, a frightening villain, and a Trustee that shows you that not all Trustees are the same. It is also in this story that Arthur really starts to embrace his role.

With this third book, I love seeing which Deadly Sin will characterize each trustee and what nature of the Will will be portrayed by each part.

Fun series and...more

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Oct 09, 2010 Cball rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: tweens, boys and girls, Potter fans

Shelves: tweens, fantasy

I am *so* enjoying this series! Arthur Penhaligon (our asthma inflicted hero)is once again racing against time (24 hours) to save himself, his friends and a leviathan (?). Yep. The 3rd in the series following the days of the week, this fast paced jump into another world leaves the reader wondering how many characters can be crammed into one book in such trying circumstances. It can be a bit overwhelming; however, the author Garth Nix, is somehow able to tie it all together and not lose the reade...more

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Aug 08, 2012 Martine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: steampunk

I won't lie – No one can say that these novels have the depth of, well, Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings. But geez, it's so much fun to read them! The only thing that bothered me a bit was that I still don't know anything about Leaf except for that she's a greenpeace member and seems a quite tough girl who is averse to wearing a dress.
But then I think of the goldfish who's playing prophet and the rats and the guys who look like pirates but who turn out to be something quite different than pirat...more

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Apr 25, 2010 Amos rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, ya

Garth Nix keeps the series going beautifully. Even with the inherent repetition of how he's set up his villains, he keeps the story and characters from being repetitious. The three offices for each Morrow Day include interesting characters in their own right, reacting to their environment in different ways as individuals rather than merely minions.

I'm also enjoy the various myth and fantasy references through his characters and how he uses them.

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Nov 21, 2012 Isabell rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 21st-century, abridged, adventure, audiobook, australian-lit, cover-blue, ed-german, fantasy, high-fantasy, kids, lib_due-20121113, library-books, contemporary, lex-800, read-2012

This is the third volume in Garth Nix’ series about Arthur and his adventures. Arthur has already defeated Monday and Tuesday, which brought him two of the seven keys. Now he has to face Wednesday. Wednesday governs the large sea of the House that can even be expanded to reach into the human worlds. Arthur learns this the hard way when his hospital room is suddenly flooded. He and his friend Leaf are drawn into the world of the House, in the middle of the ocean, where they have only Arthur’s hos...more This is the third volume in Garth Nix’ series about Arthur and his adventures. Arthur has already defeated Monday and Tuesday, which brought him two of the seven keys. Now he has to face Wednesday. Wednesday governs the large sea of the House that can even be expanded to reach into the human worlds. Arthur learns this the hard way when his hospital room is suddenly flooded. He and his friend Leaf are drawn into the world of the House, in the middle of the ocean, where they have only Arthur’s hospital bed to prevent them from drowning. But the bed won’t stay above water for long.
In comparison to Nix’ other series I’ve read, the Abhorsen books, this series is aimed at a younger audience. Having read it so far, however, I think that those books belong to those that can be read and enjoyed by all ages. Nix creates a vivid world with wonderful characters. They can be funny, scary, sympathetic or just plain disagreeable.
In this respect Drowned Wednesday didn’t disappoint. After having already read two books in the series that had the same basis: Arthur has to go into the House to find the ruler of the part of the House that is the current topic of the book. In this book Nix introduces a slightly varied background in this respect and I really enjoyed that. I also liked to see old characters return (especially Susi).
I listened to the German audiobook read by Oliver Rohrbeck. Rohrbeck is a great narrator and gives life to those books. As such those audiobooks are highly recommendable for Germans. The only downside of the audiobook is the fact that it is an abridged production. I got the audiobook from the library, which is the only reason I listened to this abridged production (I refuse to buy any abridged audiobooks). Considering that the books aren’t that long in the first place the abridgment is probably not as severe as in other books. Not having read the books before listening to the audiobook I can’t say whether the abridgment affects important parts of the books. At least there weren’t any abrupt changes or scenes where I thought there was something missing.
The books only exist as an English audiobook production, which as far as I can tell is unabridged, but not having listened to that, I can’t say anything on its quality.(less)

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Jun 04, 2012 Keerthana Batchu rated it 5 of 5 stars

This was quite good in terms of concept. I thought Grim Tuesday was repetitive and it was a lot like Mister Monday, but the seafaring, gallivanting adventure of Arthur in the Border Sea was a refreshing and new. I love Nix's idea of Feverfew's worldlet being inside the Leviathan's stomach, and the new change of Lady Wednesday being a lot more accommodating than Mister Monday of Grim Tuesday.

The Raised Rats was a nice touch. Until then I almost forgot that in the original Pied Piper's story, the...more

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Jul 13, 2011 Hollowspine rated it 4 of 5 stars

This time Arthur is invited rather than forced to go to Lady Wednesday's domain in the house, the Border Sea, however, the transport she arranges leaves a little to be desired, having Arthur washed out to sea and then picking up the wrong passenger and leaving Arthur stranded on his hospital bed. Much nautical mischief later and Arthur finds himself facing Drowned Wednesday. Although it seems she is willing to honor the dictates of the Will, Arthur will have to face down the infamous and ruthles...more

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Garth Nix was born in 1963 in Melbourne, Australia, to the sound of the Salvation Army band outside playing 'Hail the Conquering Hero Comes' or possibly 'Roll Out the Barrel'. Garth left Melbourne at an early age for Canberra (the federal capital) and stayed there till he was nineteen, when he left to drive around the UK in a beat-up Austin with a boot full of books and a Silver-Reed typewriter.

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