Wow. Okay. Where to begin with this...?
I picked up Sabriel because of the great reviews it had gotten on this website. If a book a 4.0 average rating on GR then, duh, its good. Like, by default. But throughout the ENTIRE book I could not figure out why people were obsessed. I didn't like it at all. I didn't like the plot; I didn't like the main characters (except for Mogget), I didn't like the setting or even the idea that Nix was trying to get across. I did not like it, I tell you!! But I kept at it because for some reason it got extremely high ratings.
Then.... the last ten pages happened. THE LAST TEN PAGES!!!!!! I was so enthralled with those last ten pages that I got goosebumps and I told my husband to STFU because shit was getting real.
After the epilogue and page 311, I reflected on this book as a whole. I thought about why I didn't like it in the beginning and how those last ten pages affected me. And to be honest, the ending changed my entire view.
I really looked back at the characters and the setting and the plot and all the things I didn't enjoy about the novel and I dissected it and I realized I loved it. I wasn't looking at it the way it needed to be looked at. I was just like "Woah". Garth Nix, you're a smart one. Yes, you are.
This book was absolutely AMAZING! And I only came to that realization because I was, like, in a book shock coma for five minutes after reading it. Five minutes is a long time!
I also saw a lot of elements from other books that I've read. I think Sabriel is a lot like Graceling mixed with some Constantine mixed with some bad-assery..
I picked up Sabriel because of the great reviews it had gotten on this website. If a book a 4.0 average rating on GR then, duh, its good. Like, by default. But throughout the ENTIRE book I could not figure out why people were obsessed. I didn't like it at all. I didn't like the plot; I didn't like the main characters (except for Mogget), I didn't like the setting or even the idea that Nix was trying to get across. I did not like it, I tell you!! But I kept at it because for some reason it got extremely high ratings.
Then.... the last ten pages happened. THE LAST TEN PAGES!!!!!! I was so enthralled with those last ten pages that I got goosebumps and I told my husband to STFU because shit was getting real.
After the epilogue and page 311, I reflected on this book as a whole. I thought about why I didn't like it in the beginning and how those last ten pages affected me. And to be honest, the ending changed my entire view.
I really looked back at the characters and the setting and the plot and all the things I didn't enjoy about the novel and I dissected it and I realized I loved it. I wasn't looking at it the way it needed to be looked at. I was just like "Woah". Garth Nix, you're a smart one. Yes, you are.
This book was absolutely AMAZING! And I only came to that realization because I was, like, in a book shock coma for five minutes after reading it. Five minutes is a long time!
I also saw a lot of elements from other books that I've read. I think Sabriel is a lot like Graceling mixed with some Constantine mixed with some bad-assery..
