Sabriel

Though the sex scene in Sabriel is mild, it is still present and accounted for much moreso than the mention of sexuality in His Dark Materials (though they perhaps get points for mentioning genital mutilation and being children’s novels) or in any of the Narnia books.

2009 July « paper fruit 2009

Though the sex scene in Sabriel is mild, it is still present and accounted for much moreso than the mention of sexuality in His Dark Materials (though they perhaps get points for mentioning genital mutilation and being children’s novels) or in any of the Narnia books.

independent readers « paper fruit 2009

Garth Nix's Sabriel is a great antidote to the Hollywood's current myopia that fantasy is mainly either Tolkien or Harry Potter.

MIND MELD: Stories Hollywood Should Film 2008

Definitely, DEFINITELY highly recommend trying Garth Nix's "Sabriel" trilogy.

The YA Experiment (Any Suggestions?) Jeff C 2008

I've always been interested in this Australian author, for his "Sabriel" "Lirael" and many more, particularly because of the loving care put into the mass-market paperback designs.

oldcharliebrown's Journal oldcharliebrown 2004

Then it struck me: the thing that Stardust, Sabriel, Twilight, and the Gemma Doyle books all have in common is that they all have sex in them.

independent readers « paper fruit 2009

So, thinking perhaps that Sabriel was in with the grown-up fantasy, I trekked across the store.

2009 July « paper fruit 2009

Sabriel was awesome, pretty much everything I could want in a novel – in brief, a teenaged necromancer with a pale skin and black hair and a glowing, rune-covered sword battles the forces of evil with a bandolier of silver bells that send the dead back to where the dead should be.

2009 July « paper fruit 2009

Sabriel was awesome, pretty much everything I could want in a novel – in brief, a teenaged necromancer with a pale skin and black hair and a glowing, rune-covered sword battles the forces of evil with a bandolier of silver bells that send the dead back to where the dead should be.

independent readers « paper fruit 2009

So, thinking perhaps that Sabriel was in with the grown-up fantasy, I trekked across the store.

independent readers « paper fruit 2009