Abhorsen by Garth Nix

[meganbmoore]

I found Sameth much less annoying here than I did in Lirael, but then, he didn’t have time to whine. I still would have rather been reading about Lirael and Ellimere.

I didn’t like this as much as I did Lirael, mostly because it didn’t have the Library, and because Lirael had already done most of her character growth in Lirael, and mostly just needed to get it all tied together. But I really liked the revelation about Mogget and Disreputable Dog’s identities, and I wish there had been more of Sabriel and Touchstone. (And wasn’t this the first time we learned Touchstone’s real name? Or did I just forget it?) I liked Sabriel and was ok with but not interested in Touchstone in Sabriel, but really like their older versions.

I feel like, since this is a continuation of Lirael, instead of a new story, I said everything I had to say when I posted on Lirael. But now people don’t have to bite their tongues when commenting on it!

I know that Across the Wall is a collection of short stories, at least one of which is set in the same world, but has anyone read Nix’s other series, or know if he plans to write anymore in this world? (Preferably about Ellimere or set later in Lirael’s life, but I accept that writers don’t get paid just to cater to me.)

Comments

[annwyd.livejournal.com]

Some information on Garth Nix's future plans (http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNKNKY3YXHEOS9W).

I really would have liked to know more about Lirael and Nick and what their relationship became when they got to know each other. But I guess I'll be content with the Dog-decreed knowledge that it would be something important--and hey, maybe it'll crop up in the sequel when it comes out in 2011 (if it does).

The only other book of Nix's that I've read is Shade's Children, which was...really weird and very different from the Old Kingdom trilogy. I liked it well enough, but it did have a lot of elements that appeal to me personally (creepy body horror, post-apocalyptic setting...), so I can't really say how much you'd like it.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Post-apocalyptic is actually rather popular in these parts...

And a book about Chlorr sounds excellent.

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

The thing I found oddest about Shade's Children -- at least I think that's the book I'm remembering -- is the way one scene seemed directly borrowed from Tolkien... and yet the setting was so different from Tolkien's that the scene was totally incongruous.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Which scene was that?

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

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