Gaaa! I'm so sorry this is a four star rating. The Abhorsen books are some of my all-time favorites. In fact, Abhorsen has my favorite ending of a book, ever, but Clariel left me feeling a little bit empty. The book felt to me like it was more of a draft and not the final, completed story. Granted, the story is incomplete, leaving off with the majority of Clariel's life still ahead of her. But the story that we do get, the one on the pages we are given, isn't quite as deep, isn't quite as satisfying as the stories in the other books of this series. I'm not quite sure why this is, because I think we all know that Garth Nix is a storytelling genius. Maybe he was wearing a spelled collar when he wrote this one, and couldn't put down everything he meant to. Therefore, we feel like we've been trying to get meaningful answers to important questions out of Mogget by the time we've turned the last page. Some of the answers are there, and yet something's missing.