Fantasy Buddy Reads discussion

This is a Buddy read for The Keys to the Kingdom by Garth Nix starting on November 14, 2025.


Happy Reading!

Thank you Yanique!

Thank you!

Sir Thursday


Series Schedule:
1. Mister Monday (Aug 14) [link]
2. Grim Tuesday (Sept 14) [link]
3. Drowned Wednesday (Oct 14) [link]
4. Sir Thursday (Nov 14)
5. Lady Friday (Dec 14) [link]
6. Superior Saturday (Jan 14) [link]
7. Lord Sunday (Feb 14) [link]

Next: Modern Faerie Tales by Holly Black
1. Tithe (Mar 14)
2. Valiant (Apr 14)
3. Ironside (May 14)
3.5 The Poison Eaters and Other Stories (?)

Availability? I think might be on Hoopla...

Started.

Okiedoke... I'll get to it soon...

Reading Sir Thursday today... not paying as close attention to this one, it seems...

Doppelgangers seem common in Middle-grade fiction... good way to mess with kid's lives while they're off having adventures... or hide the fact they're AWOL...

And finished... can you believe Nix had the bravery to do such a huge time jump at the end?

(A whole week) :D

I think this is the first time jump in the series, right?... series started on Monday, next day Grim Tuesday used a loophole to debt collect Monday's property forcing Arthur back into the House, Wednesday sent a letter/plea at the end of Tuesday to see him in Wednesday... and then here, he couldn't leave the House and had to stay... and then (view spoiler)[Leif spent a week passed out after the Skinless Boy was defeated, and now it's almost Friday a week later, and Leif is in the hospital again... this town/world is having a hard time, going from plague to plague... the sleeping/sloth plague on Monday and then Grayspot here on Thursday... (hide spoiler)]

So it's been 11 days Earth time since the series started, but Arthur has spent a few months in the house, running on Fae Time?...

You are fast Iain, I'm between few books, so will take a time to finish this one :)

I tried finding a series timeline online and failed... got a bit of a refresher on some book plot off the wiki... but I think I'm right on the 11 day thing...

Reading this today... amnesia plots are fun...

Finished! LOL I have not been paying attention to the time issues. I enjoyed this, but don't have a lot to say... seeing Arthur (view spoiler)[get drafted, go in disguise, become the disguise... meanwhile his friend was trying to find him and defeat the replacement... mind-controlling fungi... crazy shenanigans. (hide spoiler)]

Finished yesterday. Agree with you Nirkatze.

I'm looking forward to... not the next one (though that too)--but the one after that, learning that (view spoiler)[Lady Saturday is a healer... it'd be nice to have another book where the named Weekday is not greedy and evil... (hide spoiler)]