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“I credit the Abhorsen trilogy with restoring my love of the genre after I drifted away from it for a while, as it was one of the first times I’d seen a female protagonist carving out her own story. It follows Sabriel, daughter of the Abhorsen – the one who controls the border between life and death – as she comes into her inheritance. Its magic system, the Charter, is based on runes. The Abhorsen uses a series of bells of different sizes to control the dead and wield other powers – a concept I still find so fresh and intriguing, even thirty years after it was published. It’s a classic I’d recommend to anyone looking for a great trilogy.” Read more...
Samantha Shannon, Novelist
