e it through. And it definitely would have been put down and forgotten had I been actually reading it.

THE GOOD

Thankfully, Sabriel stumbled across Touchstone and managed to rekindle my interest. #SorryNotSorry

After that, the story really picks up and I LOVED it. I had to fight the urge to give it a five-star rating because the ending is so great. There's tons of action, running, zombies, and awesome Sabriel who manages to be her own hero without a male savior. *Fist pumps*

FINAL WORD

If you're anything like me and some of the other reviewers I've seen on here, hang tight during the first half because the last chunk makes it a worthwhile read.

And for the love of god, please do yourself a favor a listen to the audiobook.30:T5f1,I have to admit when I read on only the second or third page that Abhorsen has the power to raise the dead, my hopes for the quality of the story were significantly dampened because I feared that eliminating the finality of death would compromise the emotional depth of the story. (It's hard to empathize with a character if that character's never in any real danger.) I was pleasantly surprised to find that Nix headed off this potential weakness through the several means of placing the Abhorsen in frequent mortal danger herself (and making her implicitly unable to revive herself), of only allowing the dead to be returned to life as normal if they are rescued very soon after death, of giving the Abhorsen a moral imperative not to revive the dead (but instead a contrary imperative to lay the dead to rest), and of creating a realm between life and death where the Abhorsen can interact with the undead (but where the final realm of death is hidden even from him).

Nix's writing style gets on my nerves, as when he describes a figure leaping with "impossible leaps" or when he has Sabriel stand still numbly waiting for a pursuer to come for so long that another character has to give Sabriel a push to get her to ru

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