Garth Nix’s Mister Monday was not a good book in my opinion. The plot was pretty good at first but got boring, the characters were not as detailed as I would like them to be, but I did enjoy the setting, I wouldn’t recommend this book to people that have trouble following complicated plots.
The plot had very little action and about 80% of it was planning the climax which I do not like at all, when the story just started I thought I was going to like it, it started off with Arthur Penhagligon having an asthma attack and then having a strange man approach him giving him an usual key shaped like a clock hand. This brings mysterious creatures into Arthur’s world that tries to get the key back. “Arthur stared at him. It must be an unknown side effect, he thought. Oxygen deprivation. Hallucinations. A moment later, he felt a hard bony hand grip his head and bob it forward several times, as Sneezer made him bow to the man in the bath-chair. The shock and unpleasantness of the touch made Arthur cough and lose all his hard-won control over his breathing. Now he really was panicking, and he couldn’t breathe at all. ‘Bring him here,’ instructed Mister Monday. With a languid sigh, he leaned over the side of the bath-chair as Sneezer dragged Arthur effortlessly over, using only two fingers to pick the boy up by the back of his neck. ‘You’re sure this one will die straight …show more content…
“It was Arthur’s first day at his new school and it was not going well. Having to start two weeks after everyone else was bad enough, but it was even worse than that. Arthur was totally and utterly new to the school. His family had just moved to the town, so he knew absolutely no one and he had none of the local knowledge that would make life
The plot had very little action and about 80% of it was planning the climax which I do not like at all, when the story just started I thought I was going to like it, it started off with Arthur Penhagligon having an asthma attack and then having a strange man approach him giving him an usual key shaped like a clock hand. This brings mysterious creatures into Arthur’s world that tries to get the key back. “Arthur stared at him. It must be an unknown side effect, he thought. Oxygen deprivation. Hallucinations. A moment later, he felt a hard bony hand grip his head and bob it forward several times, as Sneezer made him bow to the man in the bath-chair. The shock and unpleasantness of the touch made Arthur cough and lose all his hard-won control over his breathing. Now he really was panicking, and he couldn’t breathe at all. ‘Bring him here,’ instructed Mister Monday. With a languid sigh, he leaned over the side of the bath-chair as Sneezer dragged Arthur effortlessly over, using only two fingers to pick the boy up by the back of his neck. ‘You’re sure this one will die straight …show more content…
“It was Arthur’s first day at his new school and it was not going well. Having to start two weeks after everyone else was bad enough, but it was even worse than that. Arthur was totally and utterly new to the school. His family had just moved to the town, so he knew absolutely no one and he had none of the local knowledge that would make life