Old Kingdom: The Abhorsen Trilogy Box Set (Paperback)

from satyridae

Very well-written, with excellent characterization and fast paced, inventive plotting. That being said, I loathed these books, except for the parts about the library. The legions of the Dead with their putrefying, suppurating flesh made me queasy. The places where these books tipped from fantasy ...

from Juva

Sabriel - Sabriel's father is an Abhorsen. He is a necromancer who has sworn to use his powers only to lay the dead to rest. He does most of his work in the Old Kingdom beyond the wall where magic is still strong and the dead roam. Though he has taught Sabriel his trade, she has grown up across t...

from AltheaAnn

These were fun books. Sabriel is pretty much a stand-alone book, but the second two are really one novel - Lirael ends right smack in the middle on a cliffhanger, and Abhorsen starts right where it left off... The trilogy gives us a dual world - one which very strongly resembles Britain in the ea...

from b_lizard

another fun fantasy series that's great for kids. the other series by garth nix don't look as fun. i wished there were more books in this series.

from hayleyscomet

This volume came packaged with the three books, Sabriel, Lirael, and Abhorsen, along with a bonus novella, Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case. Sabriel was young-adult fantasy before young-adult fantasy became popular. The magical world it introduces, in which characters can cross into th...