Sabriel by Garth Nix

Sabriel by Garth Nix

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Young woman leaves boarding school to enter the mysterious kingdom of her birth in search of her missing necromancer (sort of) father.

So I'm, like, years late on this one, but a decade later, I would like to assure you all that you were totally right, this is a great series! This first book is a bit wandery in places – you can sort of see him figuring out what he's doing – but it has something. I think it's that this series makes a lot of the usual moves – talking cat, death of a trusted adult, etc. – but it does them with this . . . eeriness, I guess. Some books have a sense for the numinous; this book has a sense for that dart of cold that shoots down your spine.




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