![]() ![]() Her act leads to a meeting with a healer (Lirael's great-great-grandmother) who fortifies her and urges her to take as her only friend the impertinent ""Disreputable Dog,"" a creature of suspicious magical origin whose true nature remains unknown. Just after her 14th birthday, Lirael releases a Stilken (half-woman, half-crustacean) from a glass-covered coffin. ![]() Lirael is the only one of a community of clairvoyant women not to be gifted with ""the Sight,"" and the mystery of her parentage contributes to her alienation. ![]() The relationships between the Kingdom's various realms and the magic may take some unraveling for readers new to the series, but the heroine's plight will be instantly compelling. In Nix's sequel to Sabriel, readers return to the entrancing and complicated Old Kingdom: a world of necromancy, seers, dangerous monsters and talking animals (the cat Mogget is back). ![]()
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