Sabriel
by Garth Nix
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Author: Garth NixEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
ISBN: N/A
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Book Reviews of Sabriel
Book Review: First book in a remarkable trilogy about necromancy
Summary: 5 Stars
"Sabriel" by Garth Nix is a unique and memorable fantasy. For those of you who feel that dragons, unicorns, and bards are a bit overdone nowadays, this fantasy offers up a heroine who binds the dead with a bandolier of bells. The Geography of Death is lovingly delineated, from the prologue where Sabriel is born and dies and is rescued from the First Gate of Death by her father, to the book's final quarter where Sabriel rescues her father from the Fourth Gate of Death. Unlike Dante's Inferno, Death in this fantasy is a river, a waterfall, pools of black water, strange currents that suck the spirit from the flesh.
Sabriel herself is an English schoolgirl, recently graduated from Wyverley Academy with a "first in English, equal first in Music, third in Mathematics, seventh in Science, second in Fighting Arts and fourth in Etiquette. She had also been a runaway first in Magic.."
A visitation from the Dead sends Sabriel on a quest through the magical Old Kingdom, in order to reunite her father's body with his spirit which is trapped within the Fourth Gate of Death. She has to do battle with a really nasty necromancer-Adept, and rescue a prince who is a bit of a figurehead at first but who finally develops into a memorable character in his own right. Sabriel is both helped and hindered by a very non-cuddly cat named Mogget.
"Sabriel" was first published in 1995, and there are two sequels now: "Lirael," and "Abhorsen." By all means, read this trilogy if you love good fantasy.
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