Sabriel

by Garth Nix
PRMS hardcover 292 pages
Hennepin County Library audiobook with Tim Curry doing vocal work
genre: YA fantasy

I started this on audiobook, but disc three kept skipping and I couldn't clean it well enough so I just grabbed the book off my shelf.

This is old-school fantasy, with magic, necromancers, and an evil creeping over the land. Sabriel is eighteen and she can travel into Death. She inherits her father's bells and bandolier (and super cool sword), but that means he's in trouble. She travels into the Old Kingdom to find his body to try to reunite his spirit with it. I'm still not sure if I liked this book or not . . . I am glad I read it and I am curious to read the next book, but I am so short on time!