The Seventh Tower #6: The Violet Keystone

In the sixth and final installment of The Seventh Tower, the battle for the World of Darkness comes to its climax as Tal, Milla and the rest of the gang unite to find and stop the dreaded Sushin and the shadow that posesses him from destroying the veil. This book is rushed in parts, especially when they take so long to reach the final battle and then blow through it in a heartbeat, but in the end all is resolved. My biggest complaint (and I appologize if this is a big spoiler...) is that Tal's father never makes a formal appearance after all the talk we've read abut him, in this or any of the other books. Nevertheless this book is a satisfying, though rushed, conclusion to The Seventh Tower.

The final in a series that brought the plot to the proverbial happy ending. Not knocking a happy ending, there are way to few in real life. Enjoyed the ending, was not "normal" but satisfactity

The Seventh Tower series is a great read! Recommended for older elementary through adults.

This was the best series I have ever read for young people!!! I would recommend it to anyone who likes to read.

One of the books in the series of the 7th Tower. Unique style and the kids loved it. Because it is older, it doesn't get the attention it deserves, but I would recommend it for slightly older kids (about 4th grade and up).

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This is a story that takes me back to my youth. I remember when I had dreams after reading book six, feeling like I was in the world. Garth Nix builds a very captivating world, and I finished reading this series for the second or third time right after I graduated from university with a BA. In this world, there are two groups of humans. One group lives in a castle and there is a heirarchy of lower class citizens who don't have mastery over light and higher ranked people who have magical stones that allow them to wield different colors of light, and there is another group of humans that live out on the ice.

I don't think it's a spoiler to say that Tal and Milla do not form a romance at any point in this series. In fact, I think the story is stronger for it.It is often too easy to become distracted by the element of romance, to the point where whoever the main character is interested in becomes merely important as a love element. It is of course possible to have a story where there is romance that is very strengthening to the story and to the characterizations of both parties. That is often very important. But this tale breaks from the love-interest assumption, just as it breaks from many other genre assumptions.Instead, both Tal and Milla experience a different kind of melding of souls. There is of course the joining of their shadows to the Storm Shepards Andras and Odris, and through this they feel a strange spiritual connection. But deeper than this is the sharing of societies that occurs between Tal and Milla. They each become an avatar of their society, yet also an outcast, while also absorbing qualities of each other's societies. They were then separated and pushed through more change, so that when they meet again, they are even more able to recognize the change in each other.This kind sharing and learning is long overdue in the Dark World, and it is an experience that transcends gender; a romance in this situation would actually weaken the story, since then it would be more about the personal sharing that this boy and girl experience. Rather, the strength, indeed the whole point of this sharing, is that His People and Her People are being shared. The sharing has nothing to do with being a boy or girl, but with being a Person.This also occurs, to a much lesser degree, with Tal and Crow, and with Milla and Malen. These secondary sharings, though, are more about Tal and Milla recognizing and dealing with other aspects of their own societies, demonstrated by the presence Crow and Malen; through these associations, both Tal and Milla must acknowledge and come to terms with a previously-assumed superiority that is not entirely appropriate, and with shame of personal failure (by the rules of their own societies), though it was a failure that has opened the door to growth, and so was vital to the health of the entire society.