Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Sep 27, 2009 Literary Ames rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: male-authors, 1st-in-series, read-in-2009, library-books, series-abandoned, young-adult, fantasy, trilogy

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Hmm, I didn’t not like it but I wasn’t in love with it either. The story was so fast paced that I never really connected with Sabriel or her father and felt very little when he finally died, maybe I would have felt differently if he had spent more time on centre stage at the beginning. Overall I needed more interaction between Sabriel, Mogget (loved his grumpy sarcasm) and Touchstone - just some chatter that wasn’t related to “the mission” to help them become better acquainted with one another, ...more

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Nov 02, 2013 Monica rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, fantasy, audio, 2013-in-2013, 2013-yearly-challenge, necromancy

Well I am not sure about this book or series. I may decide to read the other ones. This is my first book by Garth Nix. I listened to the audio which was narrated by Tim Curry. I enjoyed listening to him.

I was not familiar with anything about this book so I went in with no prior thoughts or opinions. I enjoyed the book but still trying to figure out the story. I will be checking out my library to see if they have the actual books.

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Aug 14, 2011 Valerie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: aficionados-challenge, read-in-2012

This was a really quick read.

I thought I'd like this book more than I actually did, but it grew on me by the end. I wish I had known more about Sabriel at the beginning, but she's a strong, capable female character. The writing can get awkward in places (there was one bit about a "new moon, swelling in brightness" that made me go "wait... wait... D:"), but it's readable. And I really enjoyed the romance, in a teenager-y kind of way -- for a young adult book, it was unusually frank about sex!

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Feb 25, 2010 Dichotomy Girl rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: own-kindle-read, 2022, 2014, audiobook, fantasy, 2019, 2011, j-read-along, dark-fantasy

Review : 2nd Read: 9/18/2011
So, I think I must have enjoyed this a lot more the 2nd time around, as I originally only gave it 3 stars and am now wavering between 4 and 4.5. I really liked the dark and somber atmosphere, the ambiguousness of Mogget, and the system of magic.

Original Read: 1/20/2011

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