Author: Garth Nix

Review: Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix

Posted May 8, 2024 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Terciel and Elinor by Garth Nix Series: The Old Kingdom #6 Published by Hot Key Books on November 2, 2021 Genres: Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Pages: 409 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads The long-awaited new novel from multi bestselling Garth Nix, set in the much-loved Old Kingdom. A thrilling, atmospheric dive into the history of the Abhorsen, featuring Sabriel’s parents, Terciel and Elinor. In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, eighteen year-old orphan Terciel is learning the art of necromancy – but not to raise the Dead, rather to lay them to rest. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life.Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, a steam-age country where magic usually does not work, nineteen year-old Elinor lives a secluded life, her only friends an […]

Review: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

Posted November 6, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix Published by Gollancz on September 22, 2020 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Historical, Young Adult Pages: 416 Format: Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads In a slightly alternate London in 1983, Susan Arkshaw is looking for her father, a man she has never met. Crime boss Frank Thringley might be able to help her, but Susan doesn’t get time to ask Frank any questions before he is turned to dust by the prick of a silver hatpin in the hands of the outrageously attractive Merlin. Merlin is a young left-handed bookseller (one of the fighting ones), who with the right-handed booksellers (the intellectual ones), are an extended family of magical beings who police the mythic and legendary Old World when it intrudes on the modern world, in addition to running several bookshops. Susan’s search for her father begins with her mother’s possibly misremembered or misspelt […]

Blog Tour / Review: Angel Mage by Garth Nix

Posted October 12, 2019 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments
Blog Tour / Review: Angel Mage by Garth Nix

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Angel Mage by Garth Nix Published by Gollancz on September 30, 2019 Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 560 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads More than a century has passed since Liliath crept into the empty sarcophagus of Saint Marguerite, fleeing the Fall of Ystara. But she emerges from her magical sleep still beautiful, looking no more than nineteen, and once again renews her single-minded quest to be united with her lover, Palleniel, the archangel of Ystara. A seemingly impossible quest, but Liliath is one of the greatest practitioners of angelic magic to have ever lived, summoning angels and forcing them to do her bidding. Liliath knew that most of the inhabitants of Ystara died from the Ash Blood plague or were transformed into beastlings, and she herself led the survivors who fled into neighboring Sarance. Now she learns that angels shun the Ystaran’s descendants. If they are touched […]