The Golden Compass
7/10 The modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an “All-Time Greatest Novel” and Newsweek hailed as a “Top 100 Book of All Time.” Philip Pullman takes readers to a world where humans have animal familiars and where parallel universes are within reach.
Barnes and Noble Summary:
A war is brewing in Lyra's world—a battle between those who would keep people in ignorance and those who are willing to fight for true freedom. Lyra is thrust into the middle of the conflict when her uncle Asriel comes to Oxford, fomenting rebellion, and when her best friend, Roger, suddenly disappears.
Lyra learns that Roger was kidnapped by a shadowy organization that steals children and, it is rumored, experiments on them. To find him, she will travel to the cold, far North, where armored bears and witch clans rule . . . and where her uncle Asriel is attempting to build a bridge to a parallel world.
What Lyra doesn't know, mustn't know, is that her actions will have consequences not just in her world, but in all the worlds beyond.
My review:
This book was absolutely phenomenal. I can't write a summary because there was so much going on, and I loved that. Phillip Pullman has a way of writing a book, and taking you to where the story takes place. Phillip Pullman really knows how to use imagery. There were so many plot twists, that kept me on the edge of my seat.
I gave this book an 8/10 because it was SUPER long. It took me a month to read. (I was reading other books too). I also felt like this was kind of like a Tom and Jerry book. Lyra is always running, and Mrs. Coulter is always capturing her. It just got a little repetitive.
Overall this book was a very fun read, I just wish it was shorter.
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