Terciel & Elinor

Title:

Terciel & Elinor

Author:

Nix, Garth, author.

Personal Author:

Nix, Garth, author.

ISBN:

9780063049321

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series:

Old Kingdom series ; [6]

Old Kingdom ; 6.

General Note:

Though a prequel to the OId Kingdom series, publication of this novel follows: Goldenhand.

Abstract:

This prequel to the Old Kingdom series tells the story of how Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, met.

In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great-aunt Tizanael. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life. Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, Elinor's only friends are an old governess and an even older groom who was once a famous circus performer. She does not know she is deeply connected to the Old Kingdom, nor that magic can sometimes come across the Wall. Then a plot by an ancient enemy of the Abhorsens brings Terciel and Tizanael to Ancelstierre, setting Elinor on a path which will take her into the Old Kingdom, into Terciel's life, and into the struggle of the Abhorsens against the Dead who will not stay dead. -- adapted from Goodreads info

Subject Term:

Nephews -- Juvenile fiction.

Aunts -- Juvenile fiction.

Parents -- Juvenile fiction.

Interpersonal relations -- Juvenile fiction.

Magic -- Juvenile fiction.

Good and evil -- Juvenile fiction.

Genre:

Summary:

This prequel to the Old Kingdom series tells the story of how Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, met.

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Summary

Bestselling novelist Garth Nix returns to the Old Kingdom for the never-before-told love story of Sabriel's parents, Terciel and Elinor, and the charter magic that brought them together--and threatened to tear them apart. A long-awaited prequel to a classic fantasy series.

In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, eighteen year-old orphan Terciel learns the art of necromancy from his great-aunt Tizanael. But not to raise the Dead, rather to lay them to rest. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, and Tizanael is the Abhorsen, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life.

Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, a steam-age country where magic usually does not work, nineteen year-old Elinor lives a secluded life. Her only friends an old governess and an even older groom who was once a famous circus performer. Her mother is a tyrant, who is feared by all despite her sickness and impending death . . . but perhaps there is even more to fear from that.

Elinor does not know she is deeply connected to the Old Kingdom, nor that magic can sometimes come across the Wall, until a plot by an ancient enemy of the Abhorsens brings Terciel and Tizanael to Ancelstierre. In a single day of fire and death and loss, Elinor finds herself set on a path which will take her into the Old Kingdom, into Terciel's life, and will embroil her in the struggle of the Abhorsens against the Dead who will not stay dead.

*USA Today Bestseller*

"One of the greatest living fantasy writers. I will never get enough of the Old Kingdom." --Sarah J. Maas, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Reviews (1)

Kirkus Review

This sixth book in the Old Kingdom series chronicles how Sabriel's parents met. Readers first meet Terciel (who is later to become Sabriel's father) after he's been plucked out of poverty and obscurity to become the successor to Abhorsen Tizanael. Across the wall in Ancelstierre, Elinor (Sabriel's future mother), an utterly charming 19-year-old aspiring thespian, has spent all her years secluded in the countryside. Though she is lacking a loving parent--her mother is distant, her father dead--Elinor has found care and companionship in her governess, Mrs. Watkins, and the elderly groom Ham, Mrs. Watkins' uncle. When a horrible turn of events uncovers an old and dangerous foe--and leads to Elinor and Terciel's meeting--Elinor learns of her hidden Old Kingdom ancestry and must find her own way in the world for the first time, eventually returning to Terciel. Chapters alternate between the pair. Terciel is likable and his struggles as Abhorsen-in-Waiting are sympathetic, but it's endearing, charismatic Elinor who steals the show in this character-driven story. Nix offers fans of the Old Kingdom a gift in the book's return to the feel of the original trilogy; readers will be glad he chose the path that led to this story. Terciel has deep-brown skin, but his color is leeched by time spent in Death; most other characters read as White. Enjoyable, engaging, and well written. (maps) (Fantasy. 14-18) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.