6/4/2023 0 Comments The subtle knife book reviewAnd yet, I also felt this book was a good deal slower, suffering in places from middle-book syndrome. Even though I enjoyed these philosophical elements, this book felt far more like a thriller than the adventure story found in The Golden Compass. The further implications of the importance of dæmons, whether they be externally expressed or contained within a person, are fascinating, as is the relation of Dust to dark matter in our own world. I enjoyed how Pullman made some of these alternate worlds so similar, with just enough differences to be jarring. The one thing you can’t do is choose neither.” “It’s like having to make a choice: a blessing or a curse. The two children on the cusp of their adolescence are quite obviously being set up as either the salvation or damnation of the countless worlds they now know exist. Will is both more civilized and more violent than Lyra, which shines a softer light on our original protagonist than we saw in her first book. Their personalities are very different, but they are both defined most by the protectiveness that fuels them and the fierceness that courses through them. I quite enjoy Will, and found him a great counterpart for Lyra. The Subtle Knife picks up almost where The Golden Compass ended, except that this second installment took a slight detour in order to introduce us to a second main protagonist in the form of Will Parry.
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