
Why we'd hand it over
A genuinely unsettling dark-fantasy trilogy that respects middle-grade intelligence—Lirael's fear is the point, not a flaw to overcome quickly, and the death magic worldbuilding is baroque and genuinely eerie.

A genuinely unsettling dark-fantasy trilogy that respects middle-grade intelligence—Lirael's fear is the point, not a flaw to overcome quickly, and the death magic worldbuilding is baroque and genuinely eerie.