Sabriel - Garth Nix

Sabriel is a young girl whos father is known as Abhorsen. She lives on the outside of the wall of the old kingdom. Here she is safe from the horrors of the old kingdom. Sabriel is in her final year of Wyverley College and hopes to go to university. However her dreams of university will not come true when her father, the Abhorsen, goes missing. Sabriel must venture into the Old Kingdom to find and save her father from the evils there. Along the way Sabriel is joined by many brilliant characters in order to help her find her father and defeat the dead that will not stay dead on the way! Sabriel goes through many perils and looses many ...

Sabriel is the first in the chilling world famous series written by Garth Nix. Which will have you looking at the world around you in a completely new light. ------The world------ The first world Garth nix creates is called the "old world" or "north" and is vaguely based on medieval times, including references to castles and simple villagers working the fields. This is a world of magic and mystery where the living fight the dead in order to survive and anything mechanical crumbles into decay unnaturally fast. The country is kept in order by the regency, which appears to be crumbing, and stories of dark lurkers and broken charter ...

I have looked at Garth Nix' novels on the shelves of book shops many times and been tempted to try them. However, what has put me off is that they have always been in the Children's section. Now, I realise that books that are classified as children's stories are often not truly so. Just consider Harry Potter. How often have you seen adults reading them? So I bought “Sabriel” and I'm glad I did. Sabriel is the first book in The Old Kingdom trilogy. Sabriel is somewhat different from the remaining two books in that it is a self-contained story. At the end you aren't left wondering what happened next. It's almost like Nix only intended to write this story ...