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Originally Posted by Fremen
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Thumbs up for this trilogy! I'm mid-way through book 2 now (just came out on the 1st, so that should tell you something); great fantasy and a compelling, believable character and world.
Another trilogy I just finished was
The Abhorsen Trilogy (also called the Old Kingdom Trilogy); don't let the 'young adult' tag through you, it's a great read. I loved the unique way Garth Nix set up his novels. Imagine Great Britain with the Berlin Wall dividing the country at about Scotland. North of the Wall is the Old Kingdom: magic, kings, enchanted animals, walking dead, necromancers; and south of the Wall is Ancelstierre, think England circa 1914. Modern technology won't work north of the wall, or anywhere close to the wall if a north wind is blowing. The Ancelstierran soldiers who guard the wall carry guns and radios(also bows and swords, with chain mail over their camo), but because they've assimilated a fair bit of magic from their proximity to the Old Kingdom, they are mages as well. The first novel is called Sabriel, and focuses on Sabriel who is a young girl from the Old Kingdom who is at a girl's school in Ancelstierre when a ghost appears and summons her back to the old Kingdom to rescue her father, who is a famous necromancer dedicated to keeping the dead, dead!