![]() These are the villains of the series, the Morrow Days (whose names also provide the titles for the books: Mister Monday, Grim Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday, Sir Thursday, Lady Friday, Superior Saturday, and Lord Sunday). Not all is as it should be, though: the Architect, creator of the House, left behind a Will which was violated and broken into seven pieces by the Trustees of the House. ![]() We survive only so long as the House survives. In Kingdom, the center of the universe is a magical world called “the House” Earth and the rest of existence as we know it are referred to as “Secondary Realms”-in other words, we are non-essential. But Nix’s world is wild and imaginative in ways that make Harry Potter look tame, and is a reading experience quite unlike anything you have encountered before. It is also the premise of Garth Nix’s seven-book YA series The Keys to the Kingdom. ![]() That is the premise of Harry Potter, the most popular story of our time, and countless other books and movies and shows. ![]() A normal young boy stumbles into a magical world which he is expected to save. ![]()
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