It seems, too, that the city itself is descending into chaos, as the ancient rules binding Abhorsen, King and Clayr appear to be disintegrating. She misses roaming freely within the forests of Estwael, and she feels trapped within the stone city walls. Sixteen-year-old Clariel is not adjusting well to her new life in the city of Belisaere, the capital of the Old Kingdom. Sabriel, the first installment in the series, launched critically acclaimed. The Abhorsen stronghold, called Abhorsens House, is located on an island in the Ratterlin near the Long Cliffs. Chlorr of the Mask, under the control of the enormously powerful Necromancer Hedge, is determined to free Orannis the Destroyer - the greatest and most powerful Free Magic creature in the history of the Old Kingdom. Game of Thrones fans will love the New York Times bestselling Abhorsen series. Not only does she look completely different to everyone else, she is long past the age that she should have received the Sight.īesieged on all sides, Lirael, Sameth and the Disreputable Dog are in for the fight of their lives. Lirael has never felt like a true daughter of the Clayr, a powerful group of clairvoyant oracles responsible for assisting the Abhorsen and the Royal Family in keeping the Old Kingdom safe from the threat of the Dead.

But then a creature from across the Wall arrives at her all-girls boarding school with a message from her father, the Abhorsen - the magical protector of the realm whose task it is to bind and send back to Death those that won't stay Dead. Sabriel has spent most of her young life far away from the magical realm of the Old Kingdom, and the Dead that roam it.

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