His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
4 Stars
1088 Pages
Fiction / Fantasy / Trilogy / YA /
The Golden Compass
7.5 StarsThis for me was a reread, I have read this book 2 or 3 times now and I loved it every time. The movie is pretty good too.
Welcome to the world of Daemons and Dust, each person has a daemon that can take the form of any animal when they are a child, once they reach puberty their daemon settles into a single form (often one that reflects aspects of its humans personality) The orphan Lyra is living in the University among caretakers and professors. Suddenly her world is turned upside down when she is adopted by the lovely Ms. Coulter who is involved with child stealers called the Gobblers, they are abducting kids all over the city and taking them away far to the north .
Lyra is drawn deeper into a maze of secrets and lies. All the while drawing closer to her destiny.
The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass
The next two novels I really didn't like, these are some of my lowest rated novels of all time, within the top 6 most hated books I don't know why or how I managed to get through them. I should have stopped while I was ahead.
The world changed and we started to jump between dimensions (reminded me of a poorly done Magicians Nephew, CS Lewis). It wasn't executed well at all, nothing made any sense, we got lots of information but it had no reason, no baring, just a lot of random facts thrown out. I guess as the reader, we where supposed to come to our own conclusions and make connections ourselves. Things got even more confusing and then very boring. Until we got into the part where Pullman began to sermonize about the evils of organized religion. We ended up with a host of half formed unpleasant characters, Everything and anything was shifted at will to make it fit the anti-god campaign. By the end they both felt like english essays, where the teacher forced the story to fit into the narrow topic.Honestly not worth the time and effort of reading.
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