Once again I am starting this post by thanking someone, this time my good friend Aidan for giving me this book as part of my birthday gift in 2019! He was, after all, part of the reason I read His Dark Materials, and he sometimes saw me reading it in the office.
Whoa, well, this book was exactly what I thought it would be even before I started reading it. An expansion of the universe of the original trilogy, but that falls spectacularly short by a wide margin. If the original books could have been thought of as childrens' books, this one is undoubtedly nothing more than that. If from the beginning I was not particularly interested in Lyra's story, I was even less interested in the hollow new characters of this new novel. As I was reading this book I was reminded of some people's opinion of certain classic texts, saying that sometimes certain novels take hundreds of pages where nothing really happens. It was like that, except nothing really happened for the entirety of the book.
If you are a kid, though, this book might be interesting to you. I would still advise kids to pursue something else, like cloud appreciation.
Whoa, well, this book was exactly what I thought it would be even before I started reading it. An expansion of the universe of the original trilogy, but that falls spectacularly short by a wide margin. If the original books could have been thought of as childrens' books, this one is undoubtedly nothing more than that. If from the beginning I was not particularly interested in Lyra's story, I was even less interested in the hollow new characters of this new novel. As I was reading this book I was reminded of some people's opinion of certain classic texts, saying that sometimes certain novels take hundreds of pages where nothing really happens. It was like that, except nothing really happened for the entirety of the book.
If you are a kid, though, this book might be interesting to you. I would still advise kids to pursue something else, like cloud appreciation.
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