Jo's Old Site

This is book number two of Garth Nix’s Old Kingdom Trilogy that was published by Allen and Unwin and its ISBN number is ISBN 1741140412. Also this book followed the events of two people and one of them was a girl named Lirael who was waiting to get the sight as she was a daughter of the Clayr and getting the sight was what she expected to happen but it never came. And the other person that this story was about was a prince named Prince Sameth and his family thought he was the abhorsen in waiting.

Prince Sameth was also expected to be studying The Book of The Dead but he never did but I expect that if he was the real abhorsen in waiting he would have been as I think that was one of the powers of this book that his mother who was Sabriel gave him. But Prince Sameth didn’t let anyone in his family know that he wasn’t looking at The Book of The Dead. Also Lirael was a rather depressed person who thought about killing herself before she became a third assistant librarian as having “The Sight” at her age meant everything to her.

And she was quite a powerful Clayr. As she could do magic that was thought impossible for a person her age. She also was prone to wandering the library, and getting into danger and then after experiencing the danger Lirael realizes that she didn’t want to die as she then realizes that she wants to live.

But she was also a very lonely person, and on one of her excursions she found a small statue of a dog and this gives her the idea of performing magic to make her own dog.

As I think she was thinking of returning the statue, but then as she had the statue of the dog in her hand while she thought she was making her own dog the statue somehow became the dog she was making and so it was never returned though this magical dog really enjoyed wandering around the library with her. But even though she seemed proud to be a librarian that wasn’t her destiny.