His Dark Materials His Dark Materials: The Subtle Knife (Book 2), Book 2, (Paperback)

from xiaomarlo

I really like these! Especially, of course, the abundance of animals/daemons (Will and his love of cats! So adorable!). Can't wait to read the third one. Wish I had known about these when they came out; I would've loved them when I was in my teens. I hear the movie of the first book sucks, so I w...

from eenerd

Second book in Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Will Parry is a tough, quiet, and smart boy who lives in our own world and finds himself an integral part of the drama unfolding between all of the worlds of the universe. He meets Lyra Silvertongue by accident and together they work to unrav...

from Ravenclaw79

"Oh, no!" That was my reaction when I finished this one. I've gotten so used to everything being neatly resolved in this series, a series of young adult books, after all, that I'd already figured out in my head how this book would have to neatly end, where the nice break in the plot would be befo...

from Smiler69

Weaving in and out of two universes, book 2 of the trilogy introduces a new protagonist who comes from "our" world of "today" as we know it. Will finds himself in a terrible bind when we meet him at the beginning of the book: he must make sure to find someone to take care of his mentally unstable...

from fiverivers

The only fault I can find with The Subtle Knife, by Philip Pullman, is its readership classification (ages 10-12). A children's novel this isn't. Plainly the marketing team didn't know what to do with a novel that put forward a child as the main character, erroneously assumed that Pullman's very ...