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Above the Veil (The Seventh Tower) by Garth Nix (view source)
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Tal had grown up as one of the Chosen, with access to sunstones. Milla, though, is an Icecarl, and her upbringing has been much harsher, out on the ice with hardship and constant threat from predators. They've been thrown together by political machinations they don't understand. It's not an easy partnership but if they don't protect it, they know that their world is in mortal danger.
This fourth instalment of Garth Nix's ''Seventh Tower'' series sees them back in the castle of the Chosen and part of another uneasy alliance, this time with the rebel Underfolk, led by the unpredicatable unpredictable Crow. Can they unite for long enough to work out what the wicked Shadowmaster Sushin is really up to? Can they reseal the Keystones? Or will they fail before they have begun?
It's always difficult to know quite what to say when reviewing a middle book in a fairly long series. You've already talked about the overall standard of the sequence in previous reviews, and so you just end up repeating yourself. As we have said three times already in these here parts, ''Seventh Tower'' is a spiffing fantasy series. It has efficient prose, effective worldbuilding, and a rattling and pacy plot. The central characters are both interesting and credible, and there's a goodly spark of conflict between them that maintains interest.
They might also enjoy [[Cybernation by Erica Blaney]], whose fantasy world also features snowy wastelands and horrible predators. [[Dragon Orb (Firestorm) by Mark Robson|Dragon Orb by Mark Robson]] is also great fun.
[[Garth Nix's The Seventh Tower Series in Chronological Order]]
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