Product Description

Seven days. Seven Keys. Seven Virtues. Seven seas. The Keys to the Kingdom series continues in book three, Drowned Wednesday.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #828 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-23
• Binding: Paperback
• 400 pages

Amanda Craig
'[Garth Nix is] the coolest read in the playground.'

Anthony Horowitz
'This destined to be a cult series'

Synopsis
On the third day, there were PIRATES! Arthur Penhaligon finds himself on an adventure that will pit him against pirates, storms, explosions and a vast beast that eats everything it encounters. Will our unwitting hero be able to find the third part of the Will and claim the Third Key? No rest for poor Arthur Penhaligon. As Grim Tuesday ends, he discovers a square of stiff cardboard under his pillow, gilt-edged and inscribed with the following words: LADY WEDNESDAY Trustee of the Architect and Duchess of the Border Sea has great pleasure in inviting ARTHUR PENHALIGON to a Particular Luncheon of Seventeen Removes Transport has been arranged RSVP not required! It's an invitation he cannot refuse. From hospital room to the high seas, Arthur finds himself on an adventure that will pit him against pirates, storms, explosions of Nothing-laced gunpowder, and a vast beast that eats everything it encounters. Through it all, he is drawn deeper into the central mystery of the House. Arthur must find the third part of the Will and claim the Third Key - not just for himself, but for the millions (if not trillions) who will suffer if he doesn't. The first step?

Surviving life aboard ship on the Border Sea!

Customer Reviews

Garth Nix's amazing series continues on the high seas!
Barcode: 9780007175055

Drowned Wednesday continues where preceding book, Grim Tuesday, left off. As with all of Nix's work it is some of the best contemporary fantasy on offer at the moment and his imagery is pure magic. On the whole, i felt Drowned Wednesday lacked some of the carefree charm of Grim Tuesday but made up for it with a more mature feel. It shows the series progressing, both Nix and his characters only adding to the appeal and power of the series.

Arthur comes across as a far more interesting character in this book, beginning to realise just what he has to do, his mission becomming ever more dangerous through the course of this book and seeing him taking up a sword and riding the waves in various boats and even a submarine. The delightful Suzy takes more of a backseat here although we have a good new companion in the form of Dr. Scaramandos.

The magic and lore of the House also sees lots of devolpment in Drowned Wednesday and the idea of the semi-immortal Denizens still fascinates me. The plot is exciting and tense from start to end, never letting up in what is wholeheartedly a fantastic addition to the Keys To The Kingdom series.

Cool!!!
I loved this book, its the second best in the series after Mister Monday. Garth Nix imagination knows no bounds. He is amazing.

Arthurs is off on his adventures again and must free part 3 of the Will of the Architecht and claim the 3rd key to the kingdom.

This is a bit tricky as Arthur is only 12 years old and a chronic Asthmatic! But along with Leaf and Suzy Turquoise Blue, he will fight his way through the House and sail the Border Sea with pirates (on a bed at one point)

Seriously good book BUY IT!

Pirates ahoy!! The best book so far!
In the third book of the series Garth Nix comes back in full form, introducing and using brilliantly concepts and ideas for the next books.

In this book, Arthur is invited to meet with Drowned Wednesday, the keeper of the third Key, that allows control over the Border Sea domain of the House. Drowned Wednesday is affected by the sin of Gluttony and has eaten so much she has become a huge whale 126 miles long!!

Arthur will find himself against the pirates using magic, traveling in submarines and some other interesting locations, escaping from pirate ships, and introduces a lot of new friends like the sorcerer Dr. Scamandros or the Mariner, that will appear again and again the next books.

This book is in my opinion the best of the first five (ok, many used ideas perhaps, but beautifully blended) as it offers more of the same in a magical way. Nix's writing style is, as usual, fluid and immersive.

A real must read!