I had a better sense of who Lirael was as a character, and liked her better once she had worked through the Clayr stuff. But this book felt seriously bloated to me. Long passages of journey where not much happens, either plot or personality wise. One of the things I loved about Sabriel was how spare...
This review is also available on my blog, Stumptown Books.Once again we are following the adventures of Lirael and Prince Sameth as they fight to withhold the darkness from taking over the world. Once again the story is too drawn out and the little things that came rapid fire in Sabriel are left wi...
I did a jig when Nix finally revealed the truth about the Disreputable Dog because I guessed the truth about her in Lirael. Very good, and I may have shed a tear at the end. Maybe two.
I have put off reading this book for a number of weeks now. This is only because at the time of putting down Lirael, I had more pressing projects to conquer. To pick this book up when I did, I was excited and knew that my reading it was long overdue.I was expecting an amazing ending to this over-ach...
Fast-paced and a wild ride all the way until the very end, Abhorsen was a brilliant, satisfying and ultimately very enjoyable and fulfilling end to a riveting and vivid series. The narrative seems a bit more rushed than previous books, but there is a lot going on in the last sequel. Multiple POVs, ...
The third book in Garth Nix's trilogy satisfyingly pulls together the narrative threads begun in the first two. What I enjoyed particularly, reading it for the fourth time, was the way the integrity of the fantasy was so water-tight so that that tiny details I missed in initial readings now stood ou...
What can I say, this whole trilogy was fantastic. Nix did not stumble once in weaving a fantastic tale. The world building was very well done, as were the characters.
Wow! That was quite a ride. Abhorsen both starts and ends with a bang, literally. Nix does know how to suck a reader right into his stories, and has the prologue technique used to do so perfected, I think. In all three books of the series, the prologue just grabbed me and yanked me into the story. I...
These were fun books.Sabriel is pretty much a stand-alone book, but the second two are really one novel - Lirael ends right smack in the middle on a cliffhanger, and Abhorsen starts right where it left off...The trilogy gives us a dual world - one which very strongly resembles Britain in the early t...
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