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The Old Kingdom Series by Garth Nix. Love his writing style 🪄✍️📚💝.

Also, while my interests would have one day led me to discover necromancy (I love reading about anything magical and ghostly)...it was in this series by Garth Nix that I first encountered this form of magic 🪄👻💝 in fantasy.

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1- It was little more than three miles from the Wall into the Old Kingdom, but that was enough.

2- They say the first of my kind was a woman named Alasdair, a human raised by hawks.

3- A boy went missing the night of the storm.

4- I remain committed to my goal of saving humanity from itself, but my latest efforts are meeting with mixed results.👇

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1- Wonderful that U.S.A. was one of the countries involved in the Historic prisoner swap 😢🙏🥲.

2- Caught an episode of Captain Planet this week. Haven't seen this show since elementary age. The foundation of the show's storyline always stayed with me, yet the episode was like brand new. 💍🌎💍🌏💍🌍💍🎬💍. Hopefully I can catch more episodes🤞. 👇

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1 - Really, any book by the tagged author.

2 - While I wouldn't say, disliked...I read all the Twilight books (and watched all the movies) by Stephenie Meyer, and the story was good, yet I didn't go crazy for the craze.

3 - Old Kingdom Books by Garth Nix 📚📚💝.

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A Day Late.

1- Random

2- equally between two books that I have yet to actually purchase.

The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta (tagged) & Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix.

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The first three books of, The Old Kingdom Series.

Original reviewed 2016, updated for Litsy 2024.

My mom bought me these books when I was in high school. The bookstore clerk highly recommended them. For whatever reason, it took me awhile to open and read them. One day, I reached up and pulled Sabriel (part one) off my bookshelf and read the first few pages.

I was hooked.

I read through the first one like a storm, which remains my favorite. 👇

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Note:

The Old Kingdom books currently include:

Sabriel · Lirael · Abhorsen · Clariel · Goldenhand · Terciel and Elinor.

Plus some shorts.

Love, love, love. Absolutely loved this addition to the Abhorsen books.

Although brief, happy at the appearance of the Disreputable Dog and Mogget. Absolutely perfect.

While I had not really cared for the Clariel book, I can see why it was written. It gave deep dimensions to a character who would have otherwise just been a random ghost in distress.

The whole Abhorsen series by Garth Nix is pure magic.

The parts I didn't like about the story was from a personal viewpoint. Mainly, the Abhorsen family members did not meet my expectations of what I thought they would be like. I think I enjoy stories that focus mainly on main characters from the Abhorsen and/or Clayr (again, a personal preference).

Garth Nix storytelling was excellent as always, I have always found his writing beautiful and a joy to read.