It's definitely worth persevering with Sabriel, I think. The Old Kingdom trilogy has a great world background to it and he manages to keep the storytelling going at a good pace. (Although there are some wobbly bits in Abhorsen.)
I wouldn't recommend his kids series, The Keys to the Kingdom, though. The first one (Mister Monday) was ok, but the two after that were just crap! Completely flat and almost non existent story. It felt like he was trying to pad out a short story so that it was up to novel length, but failed miserably at it! |
