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Sabrielė

Garth Nix

4.13 AVERAGE

alex_wordweaver's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

For a book about necromancers, you'd think you'd be prepared to see some of the characters you met in a previous book die. When it was foretold in the previous book even. Nope. Not prepared in the slightest. It still hurts. Maybe even more so for the foretelling. Glad I finally read this book, which is actually the first (the previous being a prequel that only came out recently). Hope the rest are just as good. (I'm not sure if I really shipped Touchstone (whatever his real name is) and Sabriel, though.)

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zober's review against another edition

2.5

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

Magic system pro: The necromantic tools (and the gates to Death) are very cool.
Magic system con: it's not entirely clear how Charter magic works. There are runes/marks. And only some people have them. And it lets them.... do things? If they know the right runes?

Main character pro: I like the strong female protagonist who isn't afraid to admit when she's afraid.
Main character cons: Sabriel didn't seem to have much of a personality. And she is seemingly naturally good at everything - academics, fighting, magic, etc.

plus she finds out her bloodline is important, oh my!

Other assorted thoughts:
- I love the setting; there's a wall that separates the old fantasy-style world with more modern/contemporary world
- Mogget is a mystery, but one that I found frustrating rather than intriguing. I assume you find out more about Mogget in future books, but I'm not sure I liked this enough to read the other books.
- There's a romance subplot which is laughable, and this book would have been better without.

Suddenly the two teenagers love each other, after no indication of romance other than a somewhat begrudging admission that the other is attractive.

rukistarsailor's review against another edition

3.0

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

midnightlotus's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous emotional medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Garth nix is fast becoming a favourite of mine. This is well written young adult fantasy with extremely interesting world building. Can be a little generic with some character building & side plots in places but they are generally all well rounded.