I feel almost as bad about my lackluster feelings about this book as I do the fact that I've never made it all the way through a Tolkien novel. It's like a betrayal of nerdkind. But, well. I thought Sabriel had a lot of really great elements, but none of the elements were given the attention they de...
Cannot continue. Maybe when/if I get hold of the audiobook set I might be tempted to pick up where I left off. Tim Curry as narrator is enough to entice. My not finishing this book has little to do with the content, which leans heavily on necromancy/death magic, and more to do with having read one...
"Abhorsen" is a really cool concept: a fighter of death. In this story, death is a multilayered universe that only an Abhorsen can access. Death is a living thing, with motives and secrets; it's almost as if death is another character in the story. The tools Sabriel uses are peculiar, also; I though...
So this book got off to a slow start for me. I wasn't really invested in it until about half way through. For a long time the reader is in the dark about what was going on, which might be enticing for some people, but it left me frustrated. Once things pick up though, I found it interesting.
Lively and creative, Garth Nix's Sabriel shines with imagination and invention. The magic system is simple, but clever and unique to his world. Also original and intriguing is Nix's concept of a long barricaded Wall, one that separates the dreaded dangerous Old Kingdom where the Dead can gain Life a...
This is seriously one of my new favorite books, I canNOT believe how much I loved it. It deserves to be so much more well known then it is!From the first page of the prologue to the very last word, I was completely hooked. I am going to have to get the other two books of the trilogy as soon as I can...
+ Strong female protagonist; incorporation of mythic and modern elements; frank and contextually appropriate references to sexuality; appealing cover art- Some deus ex machina elements; some dangling plot elements (perhaps to be resolved later in
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