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Summary: It Rocks! Better than Potter!
Review: This book is so awesome. I was bored at the library (Mum sent us there for homework) and I saw this book. I started reading it and I couldn't put it down. I love the dark evil side, most authors don't describe it so vividly. Iff you havn't read it yet i don't know what ya been up to. READ IT!
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Summary: IF YOU HAVEN'T READ IT, WHY NOT?
Review: When a lady at the bookstore handed this wonderful book to me i was a litte reluctant to start it because i had never heard anything about it before. The first time you read it is much different than the second, and both times are great. When i first started it, i was confused, but i loved the writing style. At all times some adventure is happening, and Garth Nix gives you enough information to know exactly what is happening, but not make it predictable. I loved being introduced to all the new magic and people. I especially liked the lazy, sarcastic Mogget.I think it is a great book, and if the heroes were younger it would rival harry potter. I was surprised and dissapointed to see that there were only 137 reviews for this book, when Harry potter 4 has almost 3,000 reviews and has been out for 3 weeks. I think that everyone should read this book because you read the book in two ways. You can read it and love the story and adventure, or you can love the dark, evil scary side of the story and think about its ties into real life.I highly reccomend this book.
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Summary: The best book I ever read- 50 stars!
Review: Absolutly amazing! I can not imagine a better book. I have read and reread it dozens of times. The only thing I am unhappy about is that I have not read any of the sequels. How could anyone dislike it?This book has amazing depth and realism. I is a wonderful book.
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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: I read this book last October, and i have yet to read a bookthat measures up to it. It was so great, i feel as if I was in thestory as well. I cannot wait till the sequel comes out. In December i wrote Garth Nix and asked him when his new novel would come out. He replied May 2000. So i'm a little bumbed that it was delayed. I always know that sabriel will be my favarite book. It was extrodinary, and I am hanging on thread to read what comes next. I hope you enjoyed the novel as much as I did!
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Summary: A REAL Heroine
Review: Sabriel is a great book. One of my favourites. Sabriel is a young woman with a mysterious past living in the safe southern country of Ancelstierre. Her father, a necromancer, lives in the dangerous Olde Kingdom, where his life is often in peril. In the beginning of the book, Sabriel learns her father is in great danger, and she has to set off to find him. Sabriel is a neat girl. She's got attitude and the typical heroine gig, but she's also human. She's a character a lot of people relate to, and the story is really good. I loved Mogget, her companion, a cat-like creature made out of magic.
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Summary: The best book I ever read...
Review: "Sabriel" is truly, the best book I ever read. The other costomers basically summed up the plot for those of you who are unsure on whether to purchase it or not-but trust me, you'll love it! Even better news is: THERE IS GOING TO BE A SEQUEL! That's 2 sequels to be exact. It follows 20 years after "Sabriel," and follows up on her and Touchstone's kids, Ellimere and Sameth (as well as Lirael of the Clayr). This book is to be called "Daughter of the Clayr." The second book will most likley be called "Abhorsen." I'm so excited, and I know all of you devote Garth Nix fans out there will be just as anxious as me!
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Summary: AMAZING BOOK YOU WON'T PUT DOWN
Review: I cannot express, in words, how much I truly loved this book. After reading a great book, I alway fall into a sort of a stupor and state of boredom because there is no book for me to read. Right now, I don't know what I am going to do the rest of my life now that the book is done. Everyone, including men, should try to be just like Sabriel! She is so much like a real person and everything she does is either through her love for her lost father or for the good of other people. The plot in this book was truly amazing and unlike any other I have ever read. My favorite author used to be Clive Cussler but now it has just switched to GARTH NIX!
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Summary: One of the best works in fantasy every...
Review: I just finished reading this book a second time and I still marvel at it. Stands on the same level as Tolkien and Robert Jordan. It's a real shame that Garth Nix didn't write a sequel.
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Summary: Review of Sabriel
Review: We've all read stories starring the tough girl, out to kick the world head over tail kind of character. Sadly, these characters all too often have nothing better to do with their time than to wander around playing hero. Don't get me wrong- I love books with female heroines. But sometimes you get that feeling that they lack- well- heart. All too often the tough girl stance gets taken a little too far. Which is why I love this book. Sabriel is entirely human- a young woman who has her own goals, her own life, and who manages to uphold her values without ever giving in. Yet staunchness does not make the character; Sabriel's basic humanity is what lets her reach out and touch you from within her paper world. She gets angry, she gets even. She loves Touchstone, hates the evil that has invaded the Kingdom, treasures her father, respects Mogget. . . . It is almost a relief to 'meet' a character with such basic reasons. Don't get me wrong; there's nothing elemental about Sabriel. She has her reasons for doing what she does, and Gareth Nix does an exceptional job of writing within the female Psyche. I have, on occassion, run into those few and far between writers whose opposite sex characters behave nothing like real people, and have always regretted the experience. Okay- anyway, I found Nix's characters to be richly portrayed, human, rational, and logical. Better still was his world- on one side, a person might have a life much like ours. On the other you have a place where magic still thrives, and the great charters rule the land. The tension is nicely played out, the book climaxes nicely, and the end is resolved fairly satisfactorially. I certainly would not quibble with the concept of a sequel- In fact, for a book this good, I can only hope that at some point Nix returns and writes a sequel- either about Sabriel or about one of the Abhorsens before her; maybe the story of her father or the woman who built the paperwings. One can only hope.
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Summary: The first Mystical world of Garth Nix
Review: I'm not sure whether this was his first book, but after reading shades children, I was hungry for more. Sabriel got me stuck to Nix. The way that he creates the kingdomes, charachters, and the magic, it seems so real. I loved this book, and you will to if you've read some of Garth Nix's books. It is worth every penny!
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