Oddly, Sabriel is the second book about necromancers I’ve read in a week, the other being Martha Wells’ fantasy Death of a Necromancer. I’d read her City of Bones, which I picked up used, and just bounced hard off it; I’m not sure why and I don’t really care enough to re-read and find out. Death of a Necromancer was the Wells book I’d been recommended, though, and I enjoyed it fairly well; it was satisfyingly creepy (with a title like that, you expect it . . . ), moved quickly, and had a nice setting, a elegant and refreshingly non-quasi-medieval city. Apparently her Element of Fire is recommended by some as well, though I haven’t yet read it.