The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials #2) - Philip Pullman [Review]

Title: The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials #2)

Author: Philip Pullman

Genre: Fiction, Middle Grade, Fantasy

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf

Publishing date: first published July 22nd 1997

Pages: 326

Rating

★★★☆☆

Previous Books:

The Golden Compass

Hello! Today I’m finally reviewing the second book in the His Dark Materials trilogy, The Subtle Knife.

Will.

I started this book with the physical book but finished it as an audiobook, great audiobook I must say, full casted and really pulled you into the story. I usually don’t like audiobooks because one person making different voices for all the characters makes me feel awkward. Do you like audiobooks?

In this second installment, Lyra is lost in a new world, where she finds Will--a boy on the run,

a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels.
Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father--but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together . . . until they are split apart.

This second book has a very different vibe from the first one, first of all, it follows different characters and doesn’t focuses only on Lyra like the first book. To be honest I didn’t particularly cared for other’s story, I was only interested in Lyra and Will’s story, so the rest was kinda boring to me.

The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman [Review]

Title: The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials #1)

Author: Philip Pullman

Genre: Fantasy, Middle Grade / Young Adult, Fiction

Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers

Original publishing year: 1994

Pages: 399

Rating

★★★☆☆

Recently, La Belle Sauvage was released, a book that like is a prequel of His Dark Materials trilogy, so today I’m reviewing the first installment in the original trilogy titled The Golden Compass, which it’s also known as The Northern Lights in the UK.

This book follows Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan

The alethiometer

College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. There have been numerous kidnappings of kids in London, and one of those victims is Lyra’s best friend, Roger, so she sets herself the mission of finding him and all those kidnaped kids, on the way she will discover many truths she ignored before, helped by a rare truth-telling instrument that looks like a golden compass, an alethiometer.