Sabriel
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4.3 • 117 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
Garth Nix's fantasy masterwork is a compelling high fantasy, the gripping story of a young woman who must journey into Death to defeat a powerful necromancer. A tale of dark secrets, deep love and dangerous magic.
WINNER Aurealis Best Fantasy Novel
WINNER Aurealis Best YA Novel
SHORT-LISTED Ditmar Award, Best Long Fiction
SHORT-LISTED W.H.Smith Book Awards, Children's Book of the Year
An American Library Association Best Book for Young Adults
She walks in Death with sword and bells ...
For many years Sabriel has lived outside the walls of the Old Kingdom, away from the random power of Free Magic, and away from the Dead who won't stay dead. But now her father, the Mage Abhorsen, is missing, and to find him Sabriel must cross back into that treacherous world - and face the power of her own extraordinary destiny.
'Sabriel is a winner, a fantasy that reads like realism. Here is a world with the same solidity and four-dimensional authority as our own, created with invention, clarity and intelligence.' PHILIP PULLMAN
'Passionately exciting, full of intriguing characters and stunning scenery, Sabriel is sheer enjoyment.' THE TIMES
'Weaving horror and fantasy into a rich, original story . a powerful, gripping quest.' THE AGE
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In this first book of Australian writer Garth Nix’s acclaimed Old Kingdom teen fantasy series, the young magician and necromancer Sabriel Abhorsen embarks on a perilous search for her father. Journeying through a lawless land of malevolent spirits and deep into the realm of the dead, Nix’s valiant heroine learns the rich and troubled history of her homeland—and comes to understand her ancestral responsibility to protect and defend it. With splendid detail and frightening realism, Nix describes the wondrous Old Kingdom, where ancient spells of Charter Magic and enchanted bells can subdue gruesome Mordicants, ghostly parasites—and those Dead who refuse to rest.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
PW gave a starred review to this Australian fantasy about a young necromancer, calling it "rich, complex, involving, hard to put down." Ages 12-up.
Customer Reviews
Really Good.
An exiting, gripping tale that involves modern technology with an ancient kingdom on the brink of Death (literally). I think that, although the book was slow to start, and was repetitive in the first hundred pages, it did pick up midway and finished on a high.
Amazing.
By far my favourite book.
Love the whole series!
Most thrilling book
It will have you hooked after the first sentence