Garth Nix. (2009). Abhorsen. HarperCollins.

Garth Nix. 2009. Abhorsen. HarperCollins.

Garth Nix, Abhorsen. HarperCollins, 2009.

Garth Nix. Abhorsen. HarperCollins, 2009.

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     Garth Nix is a New York Times bestselling novelist and has been a full-time writer since 2001 but has also worked as a literary agent, marketing consultant, book editor, book publicist, book sales representative, bookseller, and part-time soldier in the Australian Army Reserve.

     Garth's many books include the Old Kingdom fantasy series, beginning with Sabriel and continuing to Goldenhand; the sci-fi novels Shade's Children and A Confusion of Princes; the Regency romance with magic Newt's Emerald; and novels for children including The Ragwitch, the Seventh Tower series, the Keys to the Kingdom series, and Frogkisser!, which is now in development as a feature film with Fox Animation/Blue Sky Studios. Garth has written numerous short stories, some of which are collected in Across the Wall and To Hold the Bridge. He has also cowritten several children's book series with Sean Williams, including TroubleTwisters and Have Sword, Will Travel.

     More than six million copies of his books have been sold around the world and his work has been translated into forty-two languages.

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In the final book in the Old Kingdom trilogy, master of fantasy and globally bestselling author Garth Nix returns to the fantastic world of Sabriel for an unforgettable conclusion. "Breathtaking, bittersweet, and utterly unforgettable." *

After centuries in captivity, the Destroyer is nearly free.

Beneath the earth, a malignant force lies waiting, greedy for freedom from its ancient prison. As the Old Kingdom falls once more into a realm of darkness and terror, the people look desperately to the Abhorsen, the scourge of the Dead, to save them. Yet Abhorsen Sabriel is lost, missing in Ancelstierre.

Only Lirael has any chance of stopping the Destroyer. With her companions Sameth, Mogget and the Disreputable Dog, she travels across the Old Kingdom in a race against time, battling Shadow Hands and dark necromancers to reach Ancelstierre before it is too late. But what hope can one young woman have against a terrible evil with the power to destroy life itself?

This eagerly awaited conclusion to Garth Nix's extraordinary trilogy of Old Kingdom books is a complex and vividly imagined story, powerful, terrifying and compelling.

"Terror, courage, bitterness, love, desperation, and sacrifice all swirl together in an apocalyptic climax that pits both Life and Death together against the destruction of everything." —Kirkus*

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     "Breathtaking, bittersweet, and utterly unforgettable." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

     — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

     — Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

     Praise for SABRIEL: "Rich, complex, involving, hard to put down, excellent high fantasy." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

     "Nix has created an ingenious, icy world. The action charges along at a gallop. A page-turner for sure." — ALA Booklist (starred review)

     "By turns rousing, charming and slyly funny, Sabriel is an engaging tale that slays sexual stereotypes along with its monsters." — San Francisco Chronicle

     Sabriel is a winner, a fantasy that reads like realism. Here is a world with the same solidity and four dimensional authority as our own, created with invention, clarity, and intelligence. I congratulate Garth Nix. And I look forward to reading his next piece of work." — Philip Pullman

     "A wonderful new fantasy filled with rich and complex imagery." — Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)

     "Nix's monsters are scary and repulsive, his sense of humor is downright sneaky, and he puts his heroine through engrossing physical and emotional wringers. This book is guaranteed to keep readers up way past their bedtimes." — School Library Journal

     "A compelling fantasy. The story is remarkable for the level of originality and leaves readers to explore for themselves." — Horn Book Magazine

     Praise for LIRAEL: "Riveting." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

     "Superb characterization." — Voice of Youth Advocates (VOYA)

     — Publishers Weekly

     "The action charges along at a gallop—a page turner for sure." — ALA Booklist (starred review)

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     Starred review from November 25, 2002
     An explosive prologue sets the stage for Nix's riveting continuation of the story begun in Sabriel
     and Lirael. While newcomers might find the intricate plotting and the rituals of the Charter Magic off-putting at first, Nix rewards their efforts. Returning characters Lirael, former Second Assistant Librarian of the Clayr and now an Abhorsen-in-Waiting (the Abhorsen's "birthright and charge to maintain the borders of Life and Death"), and her nephew, Prince Sameth, along with Disreputable Dog and the mysterious white cat, Mogget, are ensorcelled in the Abhorsen House by a Dead creature, Chlorr of the Mask, who is in league with the evil necromancer Hedge. They break out to try and rescue Sam's old friend, Nicholas Sayre, who has been tricked by Hedge into digging up Orannis, the Destroyer; if Hedge's plan succeeds, the evil now contained by two separate hemispheres will join and annihilate all life. The grotesque imagery of the Death realm provides a haunting note, which Nix offsets by the brightness of the main characters' quest to defeat the Destroyer. At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this thought-provoking fantasy also resolves the true identities of the popular Dog and Mogget characters—and suggests that Nix may still have more tricks up his sleeve. Ages 12-up.

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     February 1, 2003
     Gr 7 Up-The long-awaited confrontation between the evil necromancer Hedge and Abhorsen-in-Waiting Lirael and her nephew Sameth finally takes place in this conclusion to Nix's trilogy. Fans were left hanging at the end of Lirael (HarperCollins, 2001) as they learned that Hedge had magically enslaved a horde of the newly dead and Sam's friend Nick to help him dig up Orannis, a powerful Free Magic being who intended to destroy all life in the Kingdom. Long ago, Orannis had been broken in two and buried deep beneath the earth and Nick has discovered a way to join the two pieces to release him. All the characters from the previous books are here, but Lirael and Sam dominate the action. Lirael is destined to travel into death to find out how Orannis was defeated before and to try to find out how to defeat him once again. The experience leaves her scathed but stronger, and she finds her family, heritage, and her place in the world. Readers discover the real identities of the Disreputable Dog and the cat Mogget but Lirael's mother's actions still remain unsatisfactorily explained. Lirael and Sam have gained confidence in themselves and in their abilities in this title. There are also fewer surprises here, but Nix maintains the nonstop action, imaginative magical descriptions, and high level of violence of the previous titles. It is essential to read the series in order. There is a resolution, but the ending hints that this may not be the last story about the Old Kingdom. Fans will be overjoyed.-Sharon Rawlins, Piscataway Public Library, NJ

     Copyright 2003 School Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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     January 1, 2003
     Gr. 7-12. Although " Lirael" (2001) begins years after events in " Sabriel" (1996), " Abhorsen" picks up right where " Lirael" left off, as Lirael and Sameth, the son of the Abhorsen Sabriel, continue their battle to contain the long-imprisoned Destroyer. It's a hardscrabble battle against the forces of the dead, which have been assembled by the sinister necromancer Hedge, and once again Disreputable Dog and Mogget (the elemental in the form of a cat), play major roles, as does Sameth's good friend Nick, who is forced into the service of the Destroyer. Lirael, the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, must traverse the dangerous Gates of Death to discover how the Destroyer was defeated in the beginning, so that the process can be repeated in the present. The tension throughout the story is palatable, and despite a solid, satisfying conclusion, Nix leaves himself a bit of room to revisit his intricately designed universe--a course followed by many writers of book sets that are first envisioned as fantasy trilogies.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2003, American Library Association.)

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     February 16, 2004
     PW
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     . At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this is a thought-provoking fantasy." Ages 12-up.

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     February 1, 2004
     PW called this "a riveting continuation of the story begun in Sabriel and Liraed. At once an allegory regarding war and peace and a testament to friendship, this is a thought-provoking fantasy." Ages 12-up.

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     July 1, 2003
     Picking up where "Lirael" left off, the final book in this trilogy pitting the living against the dead centers most of its attention on Lirael, the newly christened Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Sameth, son of the current Abhorsen. The climax rivals that of the first book, "Sabriel", and though most of Nix's effort is spent on moving the plot along to its final conclusion, established fans will find this consuming finale hard to put down.

     (Copyright 2003 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)

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After centuries in captivity, the Destroyer is nearly free.

Beneath the earth, a malignant force lies waiting, greedy for freedom from its ancient prison. As the Old Kingdom falls once more into a realm of darkness and terror, the people look desperately to the Abhorsen, the scourge of the Dead, to save them. Yet Abhorsen Sabriel is lost, missing in Ancelstierre.

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