Sabriel by Garth Nix (HarperTeen; Reprint edition, 1997) (First Published in 1995)
(Abhorsen series, book 1)
Genre: Fantasy, Series
Honors: Ditmar Award Nominee for Short Fiction (1996), An ALA Notable Children's Book for Older Readers (1997), Aurealis Award for Fantasy Novel and Young Adult Novel (1995), Abraham Lincoln Award Nominee (2005) [Honors Information found at Goodreads.com]
Review: Set in a earth-like dimension in the past, Sabriel is a young girl just about ready to finish school and possibly go to college despite being brought up to fight the dead using a special kind of magic. After the her boarding school is attacked one night by a creature Sabriel tries to contact her father who lives as a great Necromancer fighting evil creatures and the dead on the other side of the "Wall" in the Old Kingdom. She soon learns that her father has been captured and in great peril. To save his life she must travel to the Old Kingdom, some place she has not been too since she was a child. Along the way to save her father she gets the aide of Mogget, a free-magic creature who is imprisoned in the body of a white cat, and Touchstone, a free charter mage who has been imprisoned as a wooden statue for hundreds of years.
Opinion: To me this book was very slow, and hard to get into. I listened to this on audio and I don't think the narrator, Tim Curry, was very helpful. I dislike it when books with a female main character are narrated by male narrators. I know many people like this book and this series, and that Garth Nix is a very popular author but this book was a serious struggle for me.
Ideas: This is a good book to give to a teen girl who likes high fantasy type stories. This book would be good for a strong female character display.
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| A picture of Sabriel that I liked much better than the book cover. |
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