I didn’t really care for Book 2 of the Book of Dust trilogy, but still I really wanted to see how it all wrapped up.

It started off promising! I was enjoying the first 40% or so. But then it did something unforgivable - it completely negated the ending of the Amber Spyglass! Because of that, I kind of wish I never picked up this series. The windows need to be closed! (And if they don’t, then Lyra needs to find Will!!)

Aside from that, there’s a bunch of things that didn’t make sense. I didn’t really understand the “Lyra lost her imagination” thing in the first place. And this book was so meandering and there were so many characters that we followed that I didn’t particularly care about. But the interesting things didn’t really get explored in depth.

I was worried that Malcolm and Lyra were going to end up together - there was too much hinting towards it and it gave me the creeps! I’m glad they didn’t get together, but since they didn’t, I’m not really sure what the point of Malcolm was - or any of his side quests.

It also really didn’t make sense for Lyra to have a secret half brother - I don’t buy that Mrs. Coulter had 2 secret children!

Finally, I was sad we didn’t see Will, but I guess wasn’t really expecting to - it just would have made it a little better.

This wasn’t completely terrible - but overall, I did not like it. On the plus side, it really makes me want to reread the original trilogy. I just have to forget this one!