Lady Friday by Garth Nix
Nov. 18th, 2009 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreWhile I haven’t liked Nix’s Keys to the Kingdom series as much as I did the Old Kingdom series, I found the first four pretty entertaining and enjoyable, despite having some serious problems with Drowned Wednesday. The fifth installment, unfortunately, I found rather dull.
Busy with her experiments robbing humans of their memories, Lady Friday isn’t interested having to fight Arthur for the piece of the Will she was entrusted with, and so she resigns from her position and tells Arthur, Superior Saturday, and the Piper that whichever gets there first can have it. There are the typical fun bits with Arthur encountering her oddball underlings and I approve of Leaf continuing to get to have her own adventures, but Lady Friday herself is almost a non-entity, and at this point, I’m mostly interested in Piper and the Piper’s Children (and I get the annoying impression that Suzy is considered less important now that Arthur has a male Piper’s Child as a buddy to have adventures with) and what’s going on with Dame Primus. And, in complete honesty, a week after reading it and I’ve forgotten most of what’s happened.
Busy with her experiments robbing humans of their memories, Lady Friday isn’t interested having to fight Arthur for the piece of the Will she was entrusted with, and so she resigns from her position and tells Arthur, Superior Saturday, and the Piper that whichever gets there first can have it. There are the typical fun bits with Arthur encountering her oddball underlings and I approve of Leaf continuing to get to have her own adventures, but Lady Friday herself is almost a non-entity, and at this point, I’m mostly interested in Piper and the Piper’s Children (and I get the annoying impression that Suzy is considered less important now that Arthur has a male Piper’s Child as a buddy to have adventures with) and what’s going on with Dame Primus. And, in complete honesty, a week after reading it and I’ve forgotten most of what’s happened.