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Sabriel by Garth Nix, first of the Old Kingdom YA fantasy series. This was okay. It seemed to have all the right ingredients - and when it was written female necromancers as the main character were not the dime-a-dozen they are today - and it got along at a good pace. But for some reason it didn't really draw me in. Not sure if was just a bit too much of a typical fantasy quest, with strong foreshadowing making most of the elements quite predictable, or just that the characters lacked that indefinable spark ... something, which means it only gets a 3/5 from me. Technically the first of a series, it works okay on it's own, with a satisfying conclusion.
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