Abhorsen (The Old Kingdom Trilogy #3) by Garth Nix

"The ending felt rushed, and it all fell rather flat. It was a slightly disappointing conclusion to what had the potential to be a great trilogy."

3 Stars

Pros: The Prologue, nail bitingly open ended//Sam, though a bit bumbling at times, is a genuinely likable character/Again, Mogget.

Cons: The Disreputable Dog and Moggets elusive, conversations about the spirits that existed before the Charter kept me guessing but at the same time, my patience was wearing thin/I feel like parts you'd want to see and experience, were told to us and not shown/The ending felt rushed.

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With Lirael's new job as Abhorsen in Waiting, she and Sam set off to find his friend Nick and try to stop him from working with the necromancer, Hedge to dig up the hemispheres that house the divided spirit of an evil being that was around before the creation of the Charter. It's obvious that the Disreputable Dog and Mogget were around during that time as well, as they have knowledge of the spirit that lives within the hemispheres and the Hell that will be unleashed if it's set free.

Lirael and the Disreputable Dog manage to sneak Nick out of his camp and tell him the truth of what's happening. Once they're gone, Lirael and Sam head to the Wall, while Hedge takes Nicholas there and they cross with both the Hemispheres.

The race is on to get to Nick's lightning Farm first and of course, they all kind of get there at the same time.

I feel like Nix rushed the ending, or perhaps it all just seemed a little too convenient. And parts that you wanted to see more of were just kind of, mentioned in passing. Like the separate precincts of Death and the gates. I would've like to have seen that more but the way Nix wrote it, it just felt like he was telling me what it looked like. I think that was the downside to Nix's writing style. He shows a whole bunch and interesting things no doubt, but he doesn't tell you much. He doesn't tell you much about how the characters are feeling either It's all just kind of surface thoughts, nothing too deep.

I enjoyed the trilogy for what it was but I'm glad I'm done with it.

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