Sabriel
by Cherie Lee
I generally like listening to audiobooks but I had some issues with the audiobook of Garth Nix's Sabriel. The story itself is compelling: the tale of a young girl who inherits her father's powers as a necromancer and goes on a journey to find her father only to discover that she must defeat a formidable, albeit long dead foe. Tim Curry's performance is also engaging. My complaint, and it sounds like a small one, is the music at the beginning and end. It sounds like music from a bad slasher movie which is not appropriate for the actual tone of the novel. This made me very dubious of the story when the first strains pierced my ears and annoyed when it was played over an otherwise moving ending scene. Then there's also the fact that it's a complicated story which is probably better understood when read. Although, I did have a professor say that her husband got addicted to this audiobook while on their car trip so this clearly isn't everyone's opinion of the audio.
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