The Seventh Tower: The Fall

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Garth Nix

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Scholastic

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General Fiction

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10+

Release Date

July 01, 2000

ISBN

0439176824

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Bestselling author Garth Nix's amazing Seventh Tower series is back - now with a great new look!

Tal has lived his whole life in darkness. He has never left his home, a mysterious castle of seven towers. He does not see the threat that will tear apart his family and his world. But Tal cannot stay safe forever. When danger strikes, he must desperately climb the Red Tower to steal a Sunstone. He reaches the top . . . and then he falls into a strange and unknown world of warriors, iceships, and hidden magic. There Tal makes an enemy who will save his life - and who holds the key to his future.

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Reader reviewed by moonymaster

This book had some pretty interesting ideas and plot points, but now that I've finished it, The Fall just kinda makes me feel stupid. As if Garth Nix came up with a really good idea but he didn't want to make the story too complex in the fear that his readers wouldn't be smart enough to understand what was happening.. It was recommended to me as a YA novel but what I found was more of a sheltered, almost nieve, book.

The creatures were different, the story-line was somewhat original, and there were even decent characters that weren't too annoying. But even so, the story fails to become anything greater than an okay fantasy book. A book that I am not quite sure was even worth reading. I have read the first three and I will admit that the series does get better... slightly, but I still can't shake the feeling that it could have been so much more than it was. There could have been dozens more plot twists to the story that could have given me the impression I wasn't reading some fantasy novel where the young hero always escapes unscathed while he learns more about his past and, I'm sure, eventually finds out the truth and saves everyone from their evil suppressors. There was no suspense or angst when something bad happened to Tal or Milla because I knew that they would find a way out of their "life threatening" situations.

If you are looking for a good, easy fantasy read I can't say that this novel would even suffice as that.

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