- Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages
- Publisher: Tegen Other; Reprint edition (Aug 28 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0064471837
- ISBN-13: 978-0064471831
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.6 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (424 customer reviews)
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#146,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2 in Books > Children's Books > Ages 9-12 > Series > Science Fiction > Abhorsen Trilogy
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After receiving a cryptic message from her father, Abhorsen, a necromancer trapped in Death, 18-year-old Sabriel sets off into the Old Kingdom. Fraught with peril and deadly trickery, her journey takes her to a world filled with parasitical spirits, Mordicants, and Shadow Hands. Unlike other necromancers, who raise the dead, Abhorsen lays the disturbed dead back to rest. This obliges him--and now Sabriel, who has taken on her father's title and duties--to slip over the border into the icy river of Death, sometimes battling the evil forces that lurk there, waiting for an opportunity to escape into the realm of the living. Desperate to find her father, and grimly determined to help save the Old Kingdom from destruction by the horrible forces of the evil undead, Sabriel endures almost impossible exhaustion, violent confrontations, and terrifying challenges to her supernatural abilities--and her destiny.
Garth Nix delves deep into the mystical underworld of necromancy, magic, and the monstrous undead. This tale is not for the faint of heart; imbedded in the classic good-versus-evil story line are subplots of grisly ghouls hungry for human life to perpetuate their stay in the world of the living, and dark, devastating secrets of betrayal and loss. Just try to put this book down. For more along this line, try Nix's later novel: Shade's Children. (Ages 12 and older) --Emilie Coulter --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Publishers Weekly
Sabriel is her last year at Wyverley College, a private school in Ancelstierre, where Magic does not work, but near the Border with the Old Kingdom, where it does. She and her father are also highly skilled necromancers, who fight the dead who seek to return to Life. But when her father is somehow trapped in Death, she must journey into the Old Kingdom to find him. She does not know that it is wracked by struggle (like that in Ursula LeGuin's The Farthest Shore)-a magician has brought chaos by refusing to die and hopes to use Sabriel and her father to further consolidate his power. Sabriel goes on a long journey throughout a densely imagined world, learning as she goes, and meeting such strange characters as Mogget, a raging natural force contained in the shape of a cat. She also develops a relationship with Touchstone, a young man who turns out to be as crucially involved as she is. Although Sabriel is possessed of much heavy knowledge ("A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more"), she is still a teenager and vulnerable where her father and love for Touchstone are concerned, making her a sympathetic heroine. Rich, complex, involving, hard to put down, this first novel, an Australian import, is excellent high fantasy. The suitably climactic ending leaves no loose ends, but readers will hope for a sequel. Ages 12-up.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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An old favorite,
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This review is from: Sabriel (Mass Market Paperback)
*laughs* I got into this book because of the cover. Seriously. The artist was the same as drew the cover to another of my favorite books, Wise Child, and the name intrigued me. So, I asked for it for Christmas my 7th grade year... and it's been one of my favorites ever since!I've re-read Sabriel... oh, 3 or 4 times now and forced my friends to read it as well. Most liked it though a few found it too 'dark'. And for good reason. Sabriel is about Death, and the people who work in and with it, the necromancers. People die, dead things come to life, and blood is cruelly spilled. All of this is made tangible through the beautifully wroght descriptions and characterizations, and all the fantastical elements are handled with such a normalcy that it is easy at times to believe there is a strange, magical kingdom to the north... where I would go in an instant if I could. Overall, it's one of the best written novels I've read in a long while, particuarly of this genre, and here I am a college student and still loving this book as much as I did the first time I read it, during classes even I was so enthralled. *guilty grin* Read Sabriel. You won't regret it.
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A Gripping Tale,
By Tina of the North (Calgary, AB CAN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sabriel (Adult) (Paperback)
An amazing book that kept me in continual suspense. It's a great read for those who like a little (and I do mean very little) bit of romance mixed in with a lot of adventure and fantasy. It felt like I was playing a RPG game so all in all it is a book I'd suggest to anyone and everyone. It's worth trying out.
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MY LEAST FAV. IN THE TRILOGY BUT STILL A GREAT BOOK,
By I*chase*butterflies (ATLANTA, GA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Sabriel (Mass Market Paperback)
I READ LIRAEL BEFORE SABRIEL(I KNOW I CHEATED) AND WAS EXPECTING A LITTLE BIT OF A BETTER BOOK... BUT THIS ONE IS STILL A WONDERFULL ADDITION TO THE SERIS. SABRIEL IS A YOUNG WOMAN GOING TO THE OLD KINGDOM FOR THE FIRST TIME TO TRY AND FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO HER FATHER WHO IS TRAPPED IN DEATH. SHE MATURES BELIVABLEY THROUGHOUT THE BOOK, BATTLING THE DEAD AND SLOWLY FOLLOWING IN LOVE. A GOOD BOOK COMPLETE WITH SACRIFICE,SADDNESS,DANGER,LOVE,A LITTLE HUMOR, THE DEAD, AND SOME UNFORGETTABLE CHARECTERS.NOTE:IT IS POSSIBLE TO READ THE SECOND AND THIRD BOOK WITHOUT THIS ONE AND NOT GET CONFUSED
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