Old Kingdom Trilogy Box Set (Old Kingdom Trilogy, #1-3)
ISBN:
9780007203024 (0007203020)
Publish date: 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins
Edition language: English
Series: Abhorsen (#1)
The first book of the trilogy was the strongest, in both story and characters. The second and third still hold their own, but I missed Sabriel.
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...
Very well-written, with excellent characterization and fast paced, inventive plotting. That being said, I loathed these books, except for the parts about the library. The legions of the Dead with their putrefying, suppurating flesh made me queasy. The places where these books tipped from fantasy int...
The writing is so good but I had a hard time with the subject matter. I'm easily squicked, and this is far too horrific for me- but the writing! I read the whole trilogy and liked it very much. Except for the squicky parts.
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