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.