Sabriel

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Summary: sabriel
Review: Sabriel is a delightful book that young people would enjoy because it has danger, love and happiness. I give it five stars because it was an all together great book. If you liked sabriel than try reading the second and third books in the outstanding series.

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Summary: fantabulous
Review: In the book, Sabriel and many other characters travel to stop a powerful enemy from taking the kingdom. She leaves on a quest taking a servant of her fathers to guide her. On her journey she finds her father trapped in the Gates of Death. Soon after she finds that her father has only a short time to live. Her father tells her that she will have to fight and defeat the enemy Kerrigor.

In the book you have Mogget, who is the mysterious servant of her father, and Touchstone who was a former prince who has lost his kingdom. There is also her father Abhorsen who was a great necromancer. Like the Abhorsens before her she learns that she has to follow in her father's footsteps in order to succeed.

Sabriel is motivated in the story to find her missing father and she does so with the help of a few traveling compansions. She then finds her father and becomes even more motivated to find Kerrigor, stop him from taking the kingdom, and avenge his death. At this point she becomes very determined.

Mogget, a slave to Abhorsen, wants his freedom. He helps Sabriel to master the art of necromancy to gain his freedom. Just like Mogget, Touchstone thinks he can bring back the kingdom by finding new royal blood. The main character Sabriel is trying to avenge her father and complete the tasks at hand so she can become a real necromancer.

Sabriel guides us on an amazing journey through a fantastical world of medieval times. The characters conflicts reveal adventures filled with underlying consequences.

Sabriel's weakness is in her love for her father which starts her on her amazing journey. The weakness of Touchstone is that he does not like to be alone. And Mogget is mean and so he does not easily make friends.

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Summary: Sabriel
Review: In the book Sabriel and many other characters travel to stop a powerful enemy from taking the kingdom. On her journey she goes to find her father trapped in the Gates of Death. She leaves on her quest taking a servant of her fathers to guide her to him. Soon after she finds him she finds that he has only a short time to live and he can only do so much. Her father then tells her that she will have to fight and defeat the enemy Kerrigor.
In the book you have Mogget who is the mysterious servant of her father and Touchstone who was a former prince that lost his kingdom. There is also her father Abhorsen who was a great necromancer like the Abhorsens before her. She learns that she has to follow in her father?s footsteps in order to succeed.
Sabriel is motivated in the story to find her missing father and she does so by traveling along the way with the help of a few others. She then finds her father and is even more motivated to find Kerrigor and stop him and avenge her father?s [end of life]. At this point is when she is the most motivated.
While Mogget, a slave to Abhorsen, is motivated to become free. He helps Sabriel to master the art of necromancy so he can feel that the debt has been repaid. Just like Mogget, Touchstone thinks he can bring his kingdom back by finding new royal blood. The main character Sabriel is trying to avenge her father and complete the tasks at hand so she can become a real necromancer.
The main character, Sabriel, is your guide through the story. The story reveals the thoughts of the character as she goes through her experiences. Overall it was a good book and competes well with others like it.
In the book Sabriel?s weakness is for the love of her father. The weakness of Touchstone is that he does not like to be alone. And Mogget is mean to most people so he can?t make friends very easyly.

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Summary: These are the best books I've ever read
Review: My name is Aaron Trawick, I'm 15 and have read more books then my whole homeroom combined. I just got done reading Sabriel and Lireal and these are by far the best books I've ever read. You can disagree all you want, but I've read the Harry Potter books (J.K. Rowlings), the Lord of the Rings books(J.R.R. Tolkien), The Redwall series (Brain Jacques) and many other great books by great authors, but Garth Nix has outdone them all. I tell any sceince fiction lover to read these books.
Aaron Trawick ADT

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Summary: awesome!
Review: Sabriel was one of the best books I have ever read. Garth Nix brings you into a world very much like our own. By now you probably know all about the book, having read the other reviews. It really is hard to put down. Sabriel was fun to read. At the end, it doesn't really seem complete. It's almost like it just stops, and there is a reason. There are two more books after Sabriel. They are Lirial and Abhorsen. They are also great books. I'm suggesting you go ahead and buy all three, especially if you enjoy magic and unknown secrets. I believe that there could be more to the series, for Abhorsen ends just like Sabriel, without letting you know exactly what happened or if it will continue. Sabriel is a great read, and it great to share with friends. I know I did!

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Summary: Sabriel A++!
Review: Garth Nix,described things very good! I only just read it but would reccomend it for kids 9 and up! It was great!

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Summary: Confused why so many like it...
Review: I honestly have no idea why so many people liked this book. I saw how many great reviews it got, and decided to try it out, almost positive that I would love it. Wow, was I wrong!

The biggest problem of all is the author's writing. This book has more intervals than I can count where I really had very little idea of what was going on, and I was extremely bored reading it. It's true that Garth Nix had a new and intriguing idea about death- the bells of Abhorsen were very neat, and the contrast between Ancelstierre- which is very much like a modern land- verses the Old Kingdom, where death walks freely- was different. If only the author had actually explained it all with decent writing and a good plot, I might have liked the book.

I can't even say whether I think that the characters are dull or not, just because they were barely even characters. I didn't think that Sabriel even had a personality. I nicknamed her the Ice Queen, because that's just what she was- cold and unfeeling. The author tried to throw in some evidence about why she might be this way, that her father was never around and that Sabriel never knew her mother. However, then she'd have these emotional outbursts at different intervals, making the reader think that she is an emotional person. That was very confusing.

The character of Mogget, who I nicknamed maggot, was strange, too. He's Sabriel's friend, or is he? Does he want to protect her, like he tries to during scenes where Sabriel battles death creatures, or does he want to kill her, like he tried to after she crashed the Paperwing? That wasn't even explained. Pretty contradicting material, if you ask me.

The romance between Sabriel and Touchstone (odd name, I know) at the end was fake and forced. I try to ignore it because that was what made me decide to write this review, to warn other readers. I haven't read Lirael or Abhorsen, and you'd have to pay me to do so.

There was also some material in this book that didn't fit the plot of the story at all, meaning it wasn't necessary nor was it really appropriate. At one point the author describes Sabriel's breasts, and when Sabriel meets Touchstone, hey! The man is naked, and she doesn't mind taking a few peeks. Not really apt for the audience.

I'm not going to lie to you- I really don't feel that this book should be recommended to anyone. The only scrap of a good thing I can say about it is that the idea of crossing into the dead, and the nine gates, is an interesting one. However, I still don't understand many things because the author was so vague about it. I still don't really know what a Moridcant or a Shadow Hand is. It was almost as if he expected you to know everything about the dead world. Gee, sorry to disappoint.

I can't see why so many people rave about this book. Either they like to read about confusing topics that true, are unusual and interesting, though clearly undeveloped, or I was missing something as I read.

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Summary: The Best Book Since Harry Potter
Review: This book is a combination of adventure and fantasy mixed into a perfect mix. I read this book and continued reading the sequal Lireal: Daughter of the Clayr. Garth Nix puts the book into a interesting read and interesting book. Read this book and you will re-read it because of the goodness of it.

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Summary: A REALLY GREAT BOOK
Review: I really thought that this was a great book and have really enjoyed it. I liked it so much that I had to go get the second one so that I could be happy. I almost didn't like the idea that Sabriel went into Death but it was okay. I really enjoyed this book though he could have left a few of the sex parts out.

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Summary: This book is Garth Nix's best, a must read.
Review: This book rocks, it's a great fantasy novel with a good amount of action, fantasy, romance, I loved it, I couldn't stop reading it, it has believable characters and a great storyline plus there are 2 more books in this trilogy though the next two mostly follow Sabriel's children which is kind of dissapointing but they are good books, Lirael and the third book Abhorsen.