The Seventh Tower #4: Above the Veil - Softcover

Nix, Garth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0439176859 ISBN 13: 9780439176859

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 2001

Synopsis

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

The Underfolk are restless. For a long time, they have kept quiet, occupying the lower levels of the Castle. But now they are going to be heard... Tal and Milla are no longer alone in their quest for the truth about their world. They have been joined by Crow, a rebel Underfolk, and his band of conspirators. They know many secrets about the Castle--and are on the verge of uncovering the greatest secret of all. The darkness is growing deeper. The shadows are growing stronger. And Tal and Milla are in greater danger than ever before.

About this title

About the Author:

Garth Nix is the New York Times best-selling author of the Seventh Tower series, as well as the acclaimed novels SABRIEL, LIRAEL, and ABHORSEN. He lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife and children.

From School Library Journal:

Gr 5-7-Nix picks his adventure up in midstride, sending renegade aristocrat Tal from the lowest depths of the immense, sunless Castle in which he has spent most of his young life to one of its highest peaks, and dispatching Tal's warrior companion, Milla, back to her ice-dwelling people with a warning that the Veil protecting the world from the deadly shadowrealm Aenir is weakening. As the author has created a very complex world in previous volumes, and the plot has gone too far to recapitulate easily, readers new to the series will flounder; still, the pace seldom lets up. Tal's affable but dim-witted "Spiritshadow" Adras makes a comic foil worthy of a Disney movie, and-sure sign of a Nix tale-the various uglies, from Waspwyrms and Dretch to archfiend Shadowmaster Sushin, are thoroughly bone-chilling. After plenty of narrow squeaks, exciting chase scenes, and stunning revelations (but no resolutions), fans will be eager for episode five: and voil...! It's already out.

John Peters, New York Public Library

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About this edition

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0439176859
• ISBN 13: 9780439176859
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Illustrator: Rawlings Steve