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Summary: Awesome
Review: When Sabriel is given her father's necromancer tools, everything is a blur. She travels to her home, to discover that she is on a quest to save good from evil. She is going have to kill someone who is already dead. She encounters talking cats. A king turned to wood and many more. Read the book yourself! :)
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: Perhaps intended for a young-adult audience, this book is engaging reading for adults, too. Don't miss the first sequel: Lirael.
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Summary: Great read...
Review: I took an extended leave from the fantasy genre; yesterday afternoon, I decided to come back to the world of witchcraft and sorcery. Highly recommended by fellow peers, I chose Garth Nix's well-known 'Sabriel'. Frankly, I was so impressed and drawn into the story that I finished it in two days and rushed to write an amazingly complementary review. So - I won't waste any time with summeries and the like, since I believe that has already been covered by other reviewers and the helpful staff of amazon.com.The plot was fantastic and fast-paced; there wasn't a moment I wasn't on the edge of my seat. Exhausting chapters of worthless garble is a common trait in many 'classic' fantasies. Nix has created an extremely believable and well-versed world, without the fluff. Poetic, dark, and forbidding, the heroine and companions are worthy of the world they are placed in. I could simply close my eyes and fly across the borders of what is called the Old Kingdom, in all its dangerous beauty. We are foreign visitors, as is the daring Sabriel. The plot was clear, consise, yet not overly simplictic. It begins as a search and rescue mission, and ends in a rich battle to save both the old and new aspects of this odd world. Characters - wonderful. As rich as the world they reside in, Sabriel, Touchstone, and Mogget fully impressed me. They all read amazingly like living people, rather than a work of fantasy. Mogget, especially - his duel personalities clash wickedly, and he is not always what he appears to be; a cat? free magic? To end this tiring review of a not-so-tiring story, I will add that this work is new, creative, and bold. There is a striking combination of modern technology and medieval swords and bows; a wall devides the two areas of the world. Many embrace magic, and others fear it - rightly so, for the wall does little to hold back the Greater Dead, a fearful object of the Old Kingdom. Following in her father's footsteps, Sabriel will not fail the reader in a quest for a good read. SABRIEL is a tale of necromancy, fantastical lands, Death, and much more. I have not read a good book in a long time, yet this has broken my stream of bad luck.
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Summary: An Australian Author Pushing All the Right Buttons
Review: From its first mysterious beginning, right through to the momentous, but sudden, ending, this book is a cut above the rest of the YA fantasy out there. However Sabriel is a page-turner, no doubt about that.
The story begins with the heroine, Sabriel, in her last year at boarding school in a country, not unlike early 20th century England, called Ancelstierre. We find that she is no ordinary girl, but in fact the daughter of the Abhorsen, a necromancer of much importance from The Old Kingdom, located to the north of Ancelstierre.
The Old Kingdom is a perilous country, where two types of magic are ever at war and the dead don't always stay dead. It is the Abhorsen's task to rid the world of evil necromancers and lay the dead back to rest.
Sabriel finds her last year cut short when she receives a message from her father, saying he is in trouble, possibly caused by his old enemy Kerrigor. As a result, she sets out on a journey across the Wall to the land of her birth to find, or rescue, her father.
Along the way she gains the help of her father's cat Mogget and the mysterious Touchstone, in the race against time (and Kerrigor) to prevent the eventual destruction of the Old Kingdom as she knows it.
The technology of Ancelstierre and the magic of the Old Kingdom and what happens when they cross provide a new issue for fantasy, which is often very medieval.
This is a book which, though it sounds a little like a horror novel when being described, contains everything a good book, and a good fantasy book at that, should have, plus some very original ideas. There is danger, magic, romance and intrigue all to be found here. A strong heroine, who is potentially a wonderful role model and Garth Nix's brilliant storytelling and humour, combine to make this novel worth every cent, and maybe more...
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Summary: It is the best book I've read all year
Review: When Sabriel (age 19)gets a message from her father saying he is trapped in death, Sabriel must go on a long dangerous journey to rescue him before it is too late. Along the way she must fight many mysterious dead creatures with the help of her two companions, Mogget a very strange talking cat, and Touchstone a charter mage about Sabriel's age. This book is exciting, adventurous, and full of surprises. I recomend this book to anyone who likes fantasy books, or anyone who just likes to read.
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Summary: Did I help?
Review: Garth Nix's book Sabriel is one of the best books i've read(it might as well be the best) This tale of quests, love, evil, death, and strange twists and turns makes it impossible to put down. I must admit though it was very confusing at the beginning becuse i couldn't figure out what 'Mogget' was. I later realised that he was one of the evil cratures turned loyal and helpful by a ring/collar. This book is about an 18 year old girl named Sabriel that starts a journey to find her fathers body so he can defeat Kerrigor, Touchstone's half brother. Touchstone was once a royal gaurd who when crazy after the Queens death (murder). Once he settles down he finds him self fighting along side Sabriel. He finally admits hes in love...
In other words read the book and you will find out.
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Summary: "Sabriel" is a must-read for anyone who loves fantasy books.
Review: "Sabriel" earned it's place on my bookshelf long ago. It's a book I reread over and over at least once a year. The world Garth Nix creates is extremely original. Hardly ever does one read about how in the same plain of existance there is a medival side and a more modern side. "Sabriel" is about an eighteen year old student by the name of Sabriel whose father is the Abhorsen (binder of the dead, like a necromancer in reverse). When he sends something from Death to give her his Abhorsen instruments, she knows something is wrong. She braves the Old Kingdom, where the dead freely roam and one of the Greater Dead: Kerrigor. The problem is she knows almost nothing about the Old Kingdom, having lived on the other side of the wall seperating the two kingdoms from each other. On her journey to save her father she meet a cat Moggot, who is not what he seems, and a young man who calls himself Touchstone. Well, is that enough to convince you to read it?
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Summary: A pleasure to read!
Review: The book was a delightful mix of fantasy dancing along the edge of realism.I'm am eager to read Garth Nix's sequel Lyrail.
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Summary: Frogs are hoppin' when they read this book!
Review: A great book! I had gotten this book for Christmas and I wasreluctant to read it. It looked like a long boring book. I smiled and said thank you, knowing that it might sit on my shelf for a long time. I decided to take it on a trip up north and I was in for a BIG surprise! I was by the fire and I started to read it trying to get it out of the way. I started it, and it was a little slow at first but it got faster. It turned out to be a book I couldn't put down! Intriguing characters, that are wonderful and believable! Also, Sabriel wasn't always mastering every challenage high above standards. I finished the book and went straight out to Borders (sorry Amazon) to buy the second book in the series, Lirael. The main plot constists of a girl whose father, the Abhorsen (a necromancer who fights the evils of other necromancers), has fallen into Death and needs help getting out. Sabriel has to take her father's place as the Abhorsen, try to save him, and try to save the kingdom. A great book in all!
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Summary: absolutly fantabulisticly amazingly wonderful book!!
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read in my life. I got it for christmas, and was done with it the next day! The moment I opened it, I couldn't put it down, it was the most captivating book I've ever read. I already have a friend of wanting to read it because I won't stop talking about it, I would recomend this book to anyone who wants a good read!
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