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!

Troubletwisters

by Garth Nix and Sean Williams
Hennepin COunty Library audioCDs 8:45
read by Miriam Margolyes
genre: YA fantasy, supernatural adventure & mystery

Liked:
the cats
good triumphs over evil
the blue room
the crocodile thing
reader's voice was very effective

Disliked:
adults keeping kids in the dark, even though the kids' lives were on the line
keeping major life secrets from mom
"Troubletwisters" never really explained
too many secrets and bizarre choices by the wardens