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Title: The Seventh Tower: Into Battle
Title: The Seventh Tower: Into Battle
Author: Garth Nix
Publisher: Scholastic
Year: 2001
Genre: Children's Fantasy
201 pages
+ Sustained action rising toward a crescendo
- A little more emotional depth would better match the characters' growing maturity
The fifth in the series. Tal must go to Aenir to enlist the Empress's help, and Milla must lead the Icecarls into the Chosen enclave. The Freefolk, an unknown quantity, nicely complicate their missions and goals.Publisher: Scholastic
Year: 2001
Genre: Children's Fantasy
201 pages
+ Sustained action rising toward a crescendo
- A little more emotional depth would better match the characters' growing maturity
The action generally alternates between Tal and Milla's stories as each races to complete daunting tasks. The pace is a bit more frenetic and chapters often close on a cliffhanger. Both protagonists come into their own more fully, and the association with the Freefolk suggests what I hope will happen in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which is that privileged protagonists must empathize with and promote justice for their society's underclass.
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