I don’t think the purpose of this book was to make me want to reread Lirael and Abhorsen, but that’s what happened.
I’ve always said I preferred Sabriel to the other two, but now I’m wondering how much of that was my “but I wanted more of book 1” and book two gets complicated.
Anyway, I feel like I would have appreciated this one significantly more if I had actually reread the other two books and understood what this was actually the prequel to...
Having said that, I really liked Clariel. It wasn’t what I expected, but what it became - and who the character was allowed to become - really fascinated me.