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This 2nd book in the Old Kingdom series centres on the life of Lirael, with Sam, the son of Sabriel and Touchstone, portrayed by the author as a foil to her personality. Lirael, an orphan, appears at the beginning of the story as a shy, introverted, sorrowful child. However, unlike Sabriel in the previous book, she gradually develops during the story into a self-confident, courageous and independent young woman. I liked the character of Lirael, whose abandonment and disappointment during childhood due to her inability to acquire the Sight birthright of her Clayr companions, did not prevent her from finding fulfillment in another direction. Her strength of character contrasts markedly with the weakness of Sam; although eventually he too discovers some unexpected traits when in dire situations.
The setting of the Old Kingdom world is beautifully descriptive, especially the Clayr's realm built on a Glacier, where Lirael works as a Librarian. The proponents of the Free Magic (wild magic) and those of Charter Magic being constantly at war is the theme that drives the plot forward.
Apart from the character of Lirael, I loved her companion, the Disreputable Dog, and the cat, Mogget, who was resurrected from the first book.
Altogether, I preferred this book to the previous one and would have given it 5 stars except for the fact that the ending is inconclusive and the reader needs to purchase the sequel 'The Abhorsen' in order to discover what ultimately happens to Lirael and Sam. So 4.5 stars for a gripping fantasy tale, set in a magical imagined world.


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Lirael Daughter of the Clayr The Abhorsen Trilogy Garth Nix Books Reviews

Lireal builds on Sabriel without being in the least bit repetitious. The characters are different, fun, interesting and flawed in ways that are endearing but not in superficial ways that make them empty shells, annoying, or boring (i.e. Bella from Twilight). Lireal is less horror-gone-light than Sabriel but Death and the evils it harbors are still ever present. It's really fun to get to know the Clayr and gain a stronger understanding of The Charter which wasn't really expounded upon in Sabriel.
I liked that Nix put some time in between the settings of Sabriel and Lireal because it gives more urgency to the tasks at hand whereas if The Old Kingdom were always in a state of life or death peril, it might not be as powerful.
I think that the Clayr's library has to be one of my favorite places in any story. It was the place I always dreamed of living in as a child only better!
"Lirael" is neither the beginning nor the end (thank goodness) of this remarkable fantasy series by Garth Nix. If you haven't already read "Sabriel", you might want to put "Lirael" aside and begin at the beginning. The middle book could stand alone, especially the story of Lirael herself, but you will miss nuances of the Philosophy and Geography of Death if you don't start with "Sabriel". The only work I can compare this series to is Philip Pullman's "Golden Compass" trilogy, although I prefer Nix's magical world-building. If I ever die and go to fantasy heaven, I hope it resembles his immense library beneath glacier and mountain, where each door opens into a separate mystery. In the catacombs beneath the library, Lirael discovers how to turn herself into an ice otter or a barking owl, reads "The Book of Remembrance and Forgetting", and duels with the monstrous Stilken.

However, "Lirael" isn't just about Lirael. Prince Sameth, heir apparent to Sabriel as the Old Kingdom's champion against evil necromancers, also comes of age in this volume. There are plenty of evil necromancers to go around. In fact, at the end of this book, it appears as though they are winning the war to turn the Old Kingdom into a kingdom of the dead.

One fault should be noted. The two main characters spend too much text feeling sorry for themselves. Lirael pursues an impossible dream, while Prince Sameth tries to escape from an impossible nightmare. I think the author's editor must have read "Sabriel" and said, "Garth, this is a great fantasy but your heroine, Sabriel is pretty darn self-sufficient. Readers can't relate to that. You need to make your characters more vulnerable." So that's exactly what Nix did in Volume Two. Vulnerability often shades over into self-pity in "Lirael"---too often for my liking. It's not enough of an annoyance to bypass this fantasy. Hopefully, in the yet-to-be-published "Abhorsen", Lirael and Prince Sameth will stop whining and take up the burden of defending the Old Kingdom. Lirael is already headed in that direction, along with her friend the Disreputable Dog.

Garth, I advise you to stop listening to your editor. You were pitch-perfect in "Sabriel". Retune `Astarael, the Sorrowful' that "casts all who hear it deep into Death" and finish this marvelous trilogy the way you began it.
Another cast of fantastic characters from Garth Nix. Which is why it hurts so much to see them behaving outrageously stupidly. It's like one of those movies where if the two lovers would just tell each other the truth, there would be no drama. In this book, the reader is given all the information about the enemy, which is hidden from some of the characters, but heavily hinted at such that if they thought carefully at all they would come to the same conclusion as the reader, and yet they don't, and do things that will get them in trouble instead.

There's a good amount of deus ex machina too, and a couple crucial events that seem unlikely without the intervention of the author.

Yet the characters are so strong and so loveable that even when they make decisions I don't approve of, I love reading their stories.

Garth does an amazing job of recreating what it feels like to be someone with social anxiety, impostor syndrome, who doesn't know their purpose in life, who feels like a misfit. The way someone with impostor syndrome negatively interprets situations to reinforce their negative self concept is tricky to capture, and Garth does an amazing job recreating that painful thought process.

These characters need CBT! Haha. And I love them anyway.
This 2nd book in the Old Kingdom series centres on the life of Lirael, with Sam, the son of Sabriel and Touchstone, portrayed by the author as a foil to her personality. Lirael, an orphan, appears at the beginning of the story as a shy, introverted, sorrowful child. However, unlike Sabriel in the previous book, she gradually develops during the story into a self-confident, courageous and independent young woman. I liked the character of Lirael, whose abandonment and disappointment during childhood due to her inability to acquire the Sight birthright of her Clayr companions, did not prevent her from finding fulfillment in another direction. Her strength of character contrasts markedly with the weakness of Sam; although eventually he too discovers some unexpected traits when in dire situations.
The setting of the Old Kingdom world is beautifully descriptive, especially the Clayr's realm built on a Glacier, where Lirael works as a Librarian. The proponents of the Free Magic (wild magic) and those of Charter Magic being constantly at war is the theme that drives the plot forward.
Apart from the character of Lirael, I loved her companion, the Disreputable Dog, and the cat, Mogget, who was resurrected from the first book.
Altogether, I preferred this book to the previous one and would have given it 5 stars except for the fact that the ending is inconclusive and the reader needs to purchase the sequel 'The Abhorsen' in order to discover what ultimately happens to Lirael and Sam. So 4.5 stars for a gripping fantasy tale, set in a magical imagined world.