Sabriel
By Garth Nix
This is a story that takes place in a different world where magic exists and powerful beings of the dead threaten society. One necromancer - the Abhorsen - joins with the Charter - the source of pure magic that restricts activities that may harm the people of the charter (Charter Mages) - to try and defeat the evil necromancer - Kerrigor a corrupt and dead member of the royal family - before he can raise an army of the dead to take over the Old Kingdom, and then the world. Sabriel must take her fathers place as the Abhorsen and with the help of Touchstone - a recently released human trapped as a figurehead on a boat in the Old Kingdom for 200 years - and destroy Kerrigor.
This book is an amazing read and is not to be missed, albeit the second book - Lirael - is not as good, taking place 14 years later and engaging with the Clayr and Sameth, Sabriel's son, and his problems.
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