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So ... The Old Kingdom/Abhorsen Trilogy ... I finished it sometime ago. Or I finished the important parts. I can't be bothered to read that Nicholas Sayre short story. And I'm not waiting for the one ... or is it two ... new books that will turn it into a Quartet or a Quintet or whatever.
Reading these books was a colossal disappointment. When I was 11 or something I picked out Sabriel, the first book in the series back when it was only a stand-alone book, from the library. I really enjoyed it at the time. It was about a young girl going on a quest and fighting the forces of the dead with the power of magic bells and she had a little cat and I was like, "This is groovypants! Yay strong women! Yay fantasy!"
Flash forward years later, my grandmother gave Sabriel, now turned into a trilogy with Lirael and Abhorsen, to my dad. Why she did this, I do not know. He read the first book and declared it a waste of time because magic is stupid and blah blah blah. And I was like, "Nooo! My lost youth! I must rediscover it!" and I took them from him ready to re-enjoy them and show Dad how wrong he is.
Yeaaaah, that didn't work out. And I'm really afraid of when I try to track down Winter of Fire now ...
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So ... The Old Kingdom/Abhorsen Trilogy ... I finished it sometime ago. Or I finished the important parts. I can't be bothered to read that Nicholas Sayre short story. And I'm not waiting for the one ... or is it two ... new books that will turn it into a Quartet or a Quintet or whatever.
Reading these books was a colossal disappointment. When I was 11 or something I picked out Sabriel, the first book in the series back when it was only a stand-alone book, from the library. I really enjoyed it at the time. It was about a young girl going on a quest and fighting the forces of the dead with the power of magic bells and she had a little cat and I was like, "This is groovypants! Yay strong women! Yay fantasy!"
Flash forward years later, my grandmother gave Sabriel, now turned into a trilogy with Lirael and Abhorsen, to my dad. Why she did this, I do not know. He read the first book and declared it a waste of time because magic is stupid and blah blah blah. And I was like, "Nooo! My lost youth! I must rediscover it!" and I took them from him ready to re-enjoy them and show Dad how wrong he is.
Yeaaaah, that didn't work out. And I'm really afraid of when I try to track down Winter of Fire now ...
( Read more... )
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