![]() It’s so captivating that music controls the Dead, combining something that brings joy with a thing that evokes such fear. Magic is wielded through Marks that are part of orderly Charter Magic, or misused by dark necromancers and Free Magic sorcerers and witches, or possessed by dangerous, slippery creatures born of Free Magic. ![]() ![]() His trademark is most definitely the specific details he weaves into the magic system. Garth Nix layers his magic over a believable real word like frosting that turns ordinary sponge into a delicious dessert creation. □ THE MAGIC & WORLDBUILDING ARE UNLIKE ANYTHING ELSEĪfter more than ten years of reading mostly YA fantasy, I still have not read a similar concept to the one in this novel: where necromancers use bells to bind the Dead and where Death is a series of grey landscapes along a river fraught with danger, leading one closer to final death. ![]()
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