Sabriel by Garth Nix Sabriel is one of the best fantasy books out there, full stop. Although not up to the deep literary analysis of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings or Pullman’s His Dark Materials, it is a realistic, fantastical, intriguing and thought-provoking novel that’s right up there with the best of them. Garth Nix […]
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Lirael by Garth Nix Lirael is the sequel to Garth Nix‘s best selling book Sabriel, and the second of his Old Kingdom trilogy. Set fourteen years after the events of Sabriel, this book surrounds the actions of two main characters. Prince Sameth is the capable, but rather inexperienced son of Touchstone and Sabriel, overshadowed by […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher´s rating: 5 | Garth Nix | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Abhorsen by Garth Nix Abhorsen is the final book of Garth Nix‘s Old Kingdom trilogy, which could basically translate into the second half of Lirael (the first installment Sabriel stands on its own, but its follow-up Lirael needs Abhorsen in order for the story to be completed). In the final chapter of Lirael, our four […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher´s rating: 5 | Garth Nix | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen by Garth Nix It’s been over ten years since Garth Nix released a book set in the world of the Old Kingdom, where an ancestral line produces individuals who take on the mantle of the Abhorsen, the necromancer responsible for keeping the dead beyond the Gates where they belong. Set six […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Garth Nix | Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Across the Wall: A Tale of the Abhorsen and Other Stories by Garth Nix Most fans will find that the most exciting feature of this Garth Nix collection is undoubtedly the short story “Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case,” set in the world of the Old Kingdom (the setting of the Old Kingdom […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher´s rating: 3 | Garth Nix | Short Fiction, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
To Hold the Bridge by Garth Nix This is not the first time Garth Nix (or at least his publisher) has released an anthology like this one: a short story collection that heavily emphasizes the inclusion of a brand new tale set within the Old Kingdom (the setting of his most famous works: Sabriel, Lirael, […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher´s rating: 3.5 | Garth Nix | Short Fiction, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Shade’s Children by Garth Nix Garth Nix published Shade’s Children in 1997. Shade’s Children is a complete book, not part of a series. It reads like a really well-made B movie. It isn’t terribly deep, it doesn’t take itself too seriously, just provides a decent action adventure. In the near future, a cataclysmic “Change” made […]
Read MoreMarion Deeds´s rating: 3 | Garth Nix | Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
The FIREBIRDS anthologies edited by Sharyn November Firebirds is the first of the three FIREBIRD anthologies edited by Sharyn November. Some people don’t like short stories, especially in anthologies where you are reading several different authors. I, however, almost always have a volume of short stories on my bedside table. Even if I manage to get no other […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 4.5 | Delia Sherman, Diana Wynne Jones, Emma Bull, Garth Nix, Kara Dalkey, Lloyd Alexander, Megan Whalen Turner, Meredith Ann Pierce, Nancy Farmer, Nancy Springer, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Patricia McKillip, Sherwood Smith | Short Fiction, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Mister Monday by Garth Nix Be a Player, Not a Pawn. Garth Nix’s Mister Monday begins a brand new children’s fantasy epic: The Keys to the Kingdom. This Australian author is fast-becoming one of the biggest names in fantasy with his reinvention of the genre and his intricate, fascinating plots. Unlike other such authors, who […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher and Ruth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 4, 5 | Garth Nix | Children | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix By now the formula to the Keys to the Kingdom series is in place — taking place over a week-long period (with each book chronicling a day) young Arthur Penhaligon travels into the mystical realm of “the House” in order to find seven pieces of a torn Will. This Will […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Garth Nix | Children | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Sir Thursday by Garth Nix By now the basic premise of Garth Nix’s seven-part The Keys to the Kingdom series is well established. Arthur Penhaligon has been thrown into an extraordinary world: the epicenter of the universe, known as “the House”. Ruled by the treacherous Morrow Days (named after the days of the week and […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher´s rating: 3 | Garth Nix | Children | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Lady Friday by Garth Nix At the epicenter of the universe is the House, a sort of celestial bureaucracy that is responsible for recording everything that happens in the Secondary Realms (the world as we know it). It is the Architect who is responsible for creating all this, with a range of guidelines and rules […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher´s rating: 3 | Garth Nix | Children | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Superior Saturday by Garth Nix The longest week of Arthur Penhaligon’s life is drawing to a close in this, the penultimate installment in Garth Nix’s The Keys to the Kingdom seven book series. Although he has managed to win five Keys from the immortal Trustees that rule over the House (the epicentre of the universe) […]
Read MoreRebecca Fisher´s rating: 4 | Garth Nix | Children | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Lord Sunday by Garth Nix In the concluding installment of Garth Nix’s The Keys to the Kingdom, Arthur Penhaglion has to organize an assault on the Incomparable Gardens, home to Lord Sunday, who controls the last part of the Architect’s Will. But Arthur isn’t the only one trying to liberate the last magical fragment of […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 4 | Garth Nix | Children | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Three Adventures by Garth Nix When I think of Garth Nix I think of excellent fantasy literature for children, but Nix writes for adults, too. Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz: Three Adventures is a collection of three previously published stories about a knight and artillerist named Sir Hereward and a […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Garth Nix | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
Newt’s Emerald by Garth Nix Here’s a charming young adult novel that you could file under both “Regency Romance” and “Fantasy.” In this fun story, Lady Truthful is celebrating her nineteenth birthday with her cousins when her slightly dotty father, a retired British admiral, brings out the family heirloom that Truthful will inherit in a […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 4 | Garth Nix | Audio, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
Frogkisser! by Garth Nix Anya is an orphaned young princess, about twelve or thirteen years old, and a bookworm (as many of the best princesses in literature seem to be). She and her fifteen year old sister Morven are orphans under the dubious care of their stepmother, a botanist who is enthusiastic about plants but […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 3.5 | Garth Nix | Children, Stand-Alone | SFF Reviews | | 3 comments |
Angel Mage by Garth Nix Chaos, death by the magical Ash Blood plague and by monstrous beasts have consumed the country of Ystara, killing all who remain within its borders. The last survivors, holed up in a cathedral, speculate that this disaster must have been caused by a “ferociously single-minded” young mage, Liliath, whose unprecedented […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones´s rating: 4 | Garth Nix | Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Reposting to include Marion’s new review. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix 1983-era London, with a half-twist toward the fantastic, mingles with ancient British mythology in Garth Nix’s new urban fantasy, The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (2020). Art student Susan Arkshaw, a punkish eighteen-year-old from rural western England, takes leave of her loving, […]
Read MoreTadiana Jones and Marion Deeds´s rating: 3.5 | Garth Nix | Stand-Alone, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 6 comments |
Lightspeed Magazine is edited by the formidable John Joseph Adams, who has produced a long series of wonderful anthologies and is soon to launch a new horror magazine. One might be concerned that such a busy schedule would mean that something would get short shrift, but if that is the case, it certainly isn’t Issue […]
Read MoreThe Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007 In many ways, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2007 anthology is a difficult book to review. For one thing, to me and a lot of my reading/writing circle, this is easily the definitive bible when it comes to short stories of the genre. For another, many of […]
Read MoreThe Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 For me, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008 has been a two-headed beast. On one hand, it’s an eagerly anticipated book by people involved in the industry, usually for the summation at the front of the book and the honorable mentions list at the back. The various […]
Read MoreFast Ships, Black Sails edited by Jeff and Ann Vandermeer I was never a big fan of pirates (ninjas, on the other hand…) but nonetheless, the very word evokes adventure and the high seas. Fast Ships, Black Sails doesn’t really stray far from that expectation and delivers eighteen stories marked with action, treachery, and a sense of […]
Read MoreCharles Tan (GUEST)´s rating: 3 | Carrie Vaughn, Elizabeth Bear, Garth Nix, Jeff VanderMeer, Kage Baker, Michael Moorcock, Naomi Novik, Sarah Monette | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Troll’s Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling Fairy tales were my first love when I was a child. My mother introduced me to the joys of stories with The Golden Book of Fairy Tales long before I learned how to read. My early reading included the first […]
Read MoreThe New Space Opera 2: All-New Tales of Science Fiction Adventure edited by Gardner Dozois & Jonathan Strahan The New Space Opera 2: All-New Tales of Science Fiction Adventure is, as its name implies, the second of Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan’s themed anthologies attempting to put a modern spin on space opera, a subgenre […]
Read MoreKat Hooper´s rating: 3.5 | Bill Willingham, Bruce Sterling, Cory Doctorow, Elizabeth Moon, Gardner Dozois, Garth Nix, Jay Lake, John Kessel, John Meaney, John Scalzi, Jonathan Strahan, Justina Robson, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Mike Resnick, Robert Charles Wilson, Sean Williams, Tad Williams | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword & Sorcery edited by Jonathan Strahan & Lou Anders Swords & Dark Magic: The New Sword & Sorcery is a book I’ve been eagerly anticipating ever since it was first announced in 2009. I was particularly excited about the anthology’s impressive list of contributors which includes several authors […]
Read MoreRobert Thompson (RETIRED), Stefan Raets (RETIRED) and Greg Hersom´s rating: 4.5 | Bill Willingham, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Garth Nix, Gene Wolfe, Glen Cook, Greg Keyes, James Enge, Joe Abercrombie, Jonathan Strahan, K.J. Parker, Lou Anders, Michael Moorcock, Michael Shea, Robert Silverberg, Scott Lynch, Steven Erikson, Tanith Lee, Tim Lebbon | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 20 comments |
Zombies vs. Unicorns edited by Holly Black & Justine Larbalestier Back in 2007, Holly Black and Justine Larabalestier got in an argument about which fiction creature was superior — zombies or unicorns. Spurred on by that debate, they each recruited some of their author friends to write short tales in which they present the storytelling […]
Read MoreSteampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories by Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (eds.) Steampunk!: An Anthology of Fantastically Rich and Strange Stories is a new young adult collection edited by veteran anthologists Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant. Featuring twelve conventional short stories and two graphic entries, Steampunk! showcases a wide variety […]
Read MoreKelly Lasiter´s rating: 4 | Cassandra Clare, Cory Doctorow, Delia Sherman, Garth Nix, Holly Black, Kelly Link, Libba Bray, M.T. Anderson, Ysabeau S. Wilce | Short Fiction, Young Adult | SFF Reviews | | 2 comments |
After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia by editors Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling When I saw the new Datlow and Windling anthology After: Nineteen Stories of Apocalypse and Dystopia, I was so excited. I love YA fiction, I love dyslit, I love short story anthologies and I love Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling as […]
Read MoreRuth Arnell (RETIRED)´s rating: 2.5 | Caitlín R. Kiernan, Carrie Ryan, Ellen Datlow, Garth Nix, Genevieve Valentine, Gregory Maguire, Jane Yolen, Jeffrey Ford, Katherine Langrish, N.K. Jemisin, Nalo Hopkinson, Richard Bowes, Sarah Rees Brennan, Terri Windling | Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | no comments |
Old Venus by Gardner Dozois & George R.R. Martin George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois’s themed anthologies are some of the most popular on the market these days. Soliciting the genre’s best-known mainstream writers, selecting highly familiar themes, and letting the length run to 500+ pages, Rogues, Warriors, Dangerous Women, Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, and others are […]
Read MoreNightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror edited by Ellen Datlow This anthology comes after a similarly titled anthology, also edited by Ellen Datlow, called Darkness: Two Decades of Modern Horror which came out in March 2010. Datlow also edits an annual anthology of horror fiction (collaborating with other editors on those). It seems then […]
Read MoreSkye Walker´s rating: 3.5 | Caitlín R. Kiernan, Ellen Datlow, Garth Nix, Gemma Files, Gene Wolfe, John Langan, Kaaron Warren, Laird Barron, Lisa Tuttle, Margo Lanagan, Richard Kadrey | Horror, Short Fiction | SFF Reviews | | 1 comment |
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