As their plotlines were finally joined in the last book, we aren’t shown as much of what is going on elsewhere in the world. (Take THAT, possible romantic subplot!) And since Queen Sabriel and King Touchstone are nowhere to be found, it looks as though averting the end of the world must fall entirely to this ill-prepared duo and their furry familiars. “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.Picking up right where book #2’s cliffhangery ending left off, Garth Nix brings us the satisfying conclusion to his Abhorsen series.Īs we learned in the last book, Lireal is now the newly minted Abhorsen in waiting. 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. But what hope can one young woman have against a terrible evil with the power to destroy life itself? 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. Only Lirael has any chance of stopping the Destroyer. Yet Abhorsen Sabriel is lost, missing in Ancelstierre.
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.
"B****reathtaking, bittersweet, and utterly unforgettable.” *Īfter centuries in captivity, the Destroyer is nearly free.īeneath the earth, a malignant force lies waiting, greedy for freedom from its ancient prison. 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.
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