Into Battle
core novel 2001 The Seventh Tower
Record
| First published | 2001 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 3.96 (5,886 ratings, collected 2026-09-13) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780439176866 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
Into Battle brings the series' rising tensions to open conflict as three forces converge: Tal, allied with Underfolk rebels fighting for their freedom from the Chosen who have long ruled over them; Milla, leading the Icecarls in a direct assault on the Castle to protect the Dark World from what they see as an existential threat; and an ancient, long-hidden evil finally beginning to reveal itself after simmering beneath the surface of earlier books. With the Veil that protects their world growing dangerously unstable, the clashing ambitions of Underfolk, Icecarls, and the Castle's ruling Chosen threaten to tear the world apart from within just as the deeper threat starts to stir.
Where it sits
- Universe: The Seventh Tower
- Series: The Seventh Tower core; position 5 of 6 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Garth Nix
Notes
- From the series record (The Seventh Tower): A completed 6-book middle-grade secondary-world fantasy sequence (Scholastic, 2000-2001), distinct from Garth Nix's Old Kingdom and Keys to the Kingdom universes: an unrelated setting split between the underground Castle and the sunlit surface world Aenir/the Veil.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings, but they resolve to the exact same sequence for this book, so one combined line is shown instead of two identical ones.
- Reading order, within the series The Seventh Tower: position 5 of 6: previous Above the Veil (2001) · next The Violet Keystone (2001)
Sources
- Reference listing: The Seventh Tower
- Rating-platform listing: The Seventh Tower series
- https://www.garthnix.com/books/the-seventh-tower/into-battle/
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