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Reader reviewed by Matt Hill

Everyone has read the same old horror story about lurching dead attacking the innocents, right? But this book is much, much more....

This book is set in an alternate land, kinda like Australia. Tha South is just like our modern world, filled with our buerocratic problems. In the North, is a fantastic medeval world of fantasy, adventure, magic...
every thing you need for a great story! Garth Nix makes the world surround you until there is no thought of how it should be; he's made it so reallistically that everyone can agree on what's what, what happens in each Precinct of Death, what each bell means, etc. The magic of the charter, and those uncontrolled Free magic Beings that the Abhorsen lays to rest.

Let this world surround you, and May the Charter be with you!