Sabriel

__Sabriel__ Danny Hayes

__Sabriel__ by Garth Nix is a great fantasy novel that is amazingly written. You almost feel like you're there watching the events happen before you're eyes. Sabriel is an eighteen year-old girl who attends Wyverly College (a boarding school, not a university) in Ancelstierre and was born in the Old Kingdom. She came to the school when she was five after living with her father and a group of travelers. Ancelstierre is bordered by the Old Kingdom, but is seperated from it by a wall covered in Charter Marks. Charter magic is the "good side" of magic in Ancelstierre and the Old Kingdom, it only can be used realtively close and in the Old Kingdom. It is used for to put down Dead and Free Magic (the "bad side"). Free Magic is used to destroy life and to bring back the dead (necromancy). The Dead brought back into Life have to feed off human life to stay strong and out of Death. Death is a river that you must use free magic to enter and also to pass through it safely. There are nine gates in death and if you pass through the ninth one you can never, ever come back ,even with outside helpl, you're gone. Sabriel's father is known as the Abhorsen. The Abhorsen is a type of necromancer and Chater Mage who put the daed vback to reast instead of bringin them into Life. They are also Charter mages. The Abhorsen carries a sword carrying Charter Marks that can slay the dead and a bandolier that holds seven bells also inscribed with Charter marks. These bells are each a different size, have different sounds, and make the Dead, and sometimes the living, do different things. Near the beggining of the book, Sabriel is sent a messager from Death from her Father, that gave her a bag containing the sword and bells. This tells Sabriel that her father is either trapped in Death or is dead and gone, so she decides to venture into the Old Kingdom go to his house then if his body's no there she will continue on. To find out what else happens, read the book. This book is definitely worth it to read, It's two sequels are __Lirael__ and __Abhorsen__.

-Reply by Youssef Ibrahim- This book sounds like a good book about an alternate world and magic. Danny is a good writer and it made me want to read it right away because of his review. it was wqritten nicely and the book sounds interesting and it makes me want to look for it at the library and its sequels.

Book review for __Sabriel__ By Virginia W. G.

__Sabriel__, by Garth Nix, is an exciting book. It is set in a fantasy world, where Sabriel must find her father, Abhorsen, who has been taken by an enemy unknown to her. Her father is a Necromancer, though not the usual sort. Instead of bringing dead spirits back into life from the river of death, he sends the dead beyond the final gate to eternal rest. Sabriel is a budding necromancer, and charter mage (a person who can control free magic into spells). She goes searching through the Old Kingdom to find her father’s body, meeting a man called Touchstone, about whom she learns more and falls in love with, and a catlike being named Maggot. With their help, Sabriel searches for her father, and helps defeat the evil necromancer, Kerrigor with the bells that her father left her which control free magic, and his sword. __Sabriel__ had good character development, good descriptions and by the end the reader was in her world. The beginning of the book was slow and mysterious, and the questions raised then were not really answered. I would rate this as your average good book, 7 out of ten.

Book review for Sabriel by Colan Biemer

Sabriel is a great book by Garth Nix, where sabriel must find her father who has been almost killed but is stuck in death. He would eventually die in their, it was up to sabriel to save her father from death, and kill the person who had done this, and to kill the person who had killed her father. She eventually finds a man named Touchstone who is a charter mage (a person who can control free magic) and she saves him. He ends up to be a royal family member who controls a huge charter stone that controls large amounts of free magic. She eventually find out that her father is in the city Belisaere in the tunnels. She also learns that the person who attacked her father is Kerrigor, Touchstones old freind. They save her father and escape many dead and Kerrigor himself, but they found out even though they had saved the Abhorsen (Sabriels father) from death he could only live for a small amount of time. So she must kill Kerragor without her father, but with Touchstone who she falls in love with, a small free magic cat Maggot, and her fathers bells and sword. This book is amazingly entertaining and keeps you entertained the whole way and anyone who like books filled with magic and adventure should definitely read it! I would give this booka a 8.5 out of 10 raiting