A review by biblioseph
The Abhorsen Trilogy Box Set by Garth Nix

5.0

The Abhorsen Trilogy is the BEST. I read Lirael first, but the order is Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen. Great. Okay. An Abhorsen is given charge of nine bells, and basicaly, puts the dead to rest. Because..... they keep coming back. Necromancy is a problem in the Old Kingdom, across the Wall from 'The Kingdom' where electricity works. Sabriel is the Abhorsen our story starts with, and we continue with Lirael who is not an Abhorsen, but is not a Seer either. She has been born and raised by the Clayr. The Magical seers of the realm who are famously blonde and peachy skinned, where Lirael is pale and dark haired. She has passed the age of being called to See, because she doesn't have the talent. The book starts with her attempting suicide... yet again. Not that she's failed before, she just calls it off, or is interrupted. Anyway, she teams up with a big black dog who speaks, (Sabriel had 'teamed up' with a demon she captured and put into the form of a white cat, Mogget.) the black dog is basically known as the Disreputable Bitch. Last book unites them and the long lost previous Abhorsen, I believe, as they battle a really infamous Necromancer who was the baddest of Bad and somehow has returned from beyond the ninth gate of the river of death where all dead go... I am leaving out so much more enticing details because I'm afraid of spoiling it... Ah, so dark... And there is some good romance. But the focus is definatley the Raised Dead.