Yet another great find, lent to me by the friend who has
really good taste in books. Sabriel is the daughter of a necromancer called the
Abhorsen, but what is different about this necromancer is that he does not
raise the dead. He keeps them beyond the gates of death and stops them from
reappearing in the natural world.
Sabriel, whilst at boarding school in Ancelstierre, realises that her father
is missing. She knows it can only be something particularly disastrous that has
happened to him so she leaves school to cross into the Old Kingdom to try and
find him. With the help of a strange, snarky cat called Mogget, and Touchstone, who
was trapped as the figurehead of a ship for a few hundred years, they find out what
happened to her father.
This is a great, easy read. I must confess I was put off at
first when I discovered that the context of this book was necromancy, having
never gone in for anything that dark in terms of themes before, but my misgivings
soon gave way to being swept up in the story. I really enjoy the characters,
particularly Mogget – his sarcasm and condescension are very entertaining – and
it’s a really good, well-paced plot. A really good tale for lovers of fantasy.
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