Status Updates From Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1)

Unsure why, but it feels like how watching a Ghibli movie feels.

It was slow to start and all of a sudden I cannot put it down

Time for a reread of my favorite book!

“Those with natural caution, or a touch of Sight, went home and locked their doors and shutters, not merely with steel and iron, but also with sprigs of broom and rowan.” Great example of show don’t tell. They need physical and supernatural powers at play.

Everything from this part forward was such beautiful imagery but also so spooky. Amazing writing and scene building.

'It was a beautiful building, Touchstone reminisced.
'You could see out over the Saere. It had high ceilings, and a clever system of vents and shafts to catch the light and the sea breeze. There was always music and dancing somewhere in the Palace, and Midsummer dinner on the garden roof, with a thousand scented candles burning..”

‘It’s sounds like a terribly brilliant plan to me,’ muttered Mogget. ‘The genius of simplicity…’
I love this quote because I feel it’s hard to portray sarcasm through writing but I can read the tone in this so easily. Then her response was: ‘Can you think of anything else?’ snapped Sabriel.