The Amber Spyglass is a frustrating book. It comes so close to being as dark as the His Dark Materials trilogy title implies only to take a turn into the power of love. Pullman has a bad habit of setting up a plot twist at the end of a novel only to go in a completely different direction in the se...
So I have been putting off reading this book because I was so nervous about the end of the series. But I finally pushed through and I have to say it was pretty good.As with the second book, I was disappointed that Lyra had a lesser role (she spends a good chunk of the book sleeping), but she does gr...
It is hard to sustain a trilogy through three books. All too often the first book is the strongest, with a deterioration into irrelevance by the end. I really loved the first book, but I feel like this series really built to a symphonic crescendo before tapering off into the ending. We begin The A...
I have to say that I thought this book was ridiculously good. There were some flow problems here and there, but other than that I thought it was great from beginning to end. I think the main reason is that though Phillip Pullman probably did consider a possibly different ending to this book. I am gl...
The Amber Spyglass is just as uneven as the previous entries. It’s uneven in different ways than the previous books, but I’m not sure whether if is a testament to Pullman’s skills. It could show a lack of learning. His main strength in showing ideas and not strawmanning the bad guys remains. His mec...
Not quite as strong as the previous two, especially the first. The exposition is a bit blunt here, as Pullman tries to cover a lot of mythological ground in a relatively short space. It's certainly an adequate finale to the series, though.
Synopsis: Lyra and Will reunite with two tiny spies and make their way to the land of the dead. Lord Asriel fights his war against The Authority. Miss Malone constructs an amber spyglass to see Dust and is hunted by an assassin from Lyra's world. There comes every once in awhile a book that can re...
It's no secret that this trilogy is about killing God. Even if the underlying story of the entire trilogy didn't spell it out for you, Pullman himself does in different interviews. He takes pride in it, in a way that to me seems like the way a bully will take pride in the way he beats down those w...
The third book in Pullman's His Dark Material's series, this book had me completely engulfed. The only downside is that the completeness that you would expect from the last in a trilogy is not neatly wrapped up and left me wanting to know more. It felt rushed at the end but is still a good read. O...
OK, well, I didn't realise this before, but The Amber Spyglass is really quite weird. The third in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, it follows Will and Lyra on a journey to the land of the dead and beyond as they become caught up in Lord Asriel's almighty, audacious war on heaven and t...
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