If you have recently witnessed the release of Clariel: The Lost Abhorsen, Garth Nix's latest addition to his Old Kingdom series and wanted to read it, but found yourself wondering whether to read his other novels first, I highly recommend you do.
Sabriel was published before I was even born, in 1995. This might be the same for you, dear fellow YA reader. But the absolutely wonderful thing about Nix's books and just about every fantasy novel is that the story, the themes and the morals just don't become irrelevant or out of style, which can be common with contemporary novels. As times change, along with people's interests and way of speech, contemporary novels can begin to feel old, fast. But as you can see from examples like The Lord of the Rings, fantasy remains. Sabriel is just as good a read as any other YA fantasy book released today.
