I purchased Sabriel - by Garth Nix - as an eBook a few weeks ago, and
finished it on Monday. DAMN that's a good book. Even though I knew
what was going to happen I was still enthralled, held by the suspense,
and chilled by the visuals created.
If you've never read it, do it! I would characterize it as fantasy for
people who generally don't read fantasy. It didn't require a map, a
genealogy chart, or an index of terms. It wasn't a thousand pages long
and require three books before and three books after to understand.
Just an awesome read with fantastic descriptions and a brilliant plot.
Nix's idea of Death, a cold multi-layered river that necromancers wade
through, is amazing. The writing itself is also very...flowy I guess
you'd say? Not flowering, but just so easy to read that I want to read
it out loud with cultural accents and excited hand motions. Despite
it's seemingly dark story, this is a book I'd love to read aloud to or
at least with Evy when she gets older.
One thing I'd say though is: Give it time. My sister recently began to
read it and she found it a bit confusing at first. Having reread it, I
can understand. If you're not used to fantasy and plunging into
another world, it could take some time to get used to and comprehend.
Here's a good synopsis, if you're interested:
"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."
Thanks to Jenni who suggested it :)
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