This book is un-put-down-able; when you start reading, you can barely put it down. I read it in about a week reading two or three chapters on a school day & five chapters on a weekend. The book has 23 chapters of approximately 15 – 30 pages. Every page is exciting, adventurous & not one page is badly written – this book is brilliant! It is among my favourite books; I look forward to reading the other two books in the ‘His Dark Materials’ trilogy. Phillip Pullman has written many books, a lot of which, I have read but this book is 10 times better than all of them (I am not saying those books are bad). The story is about a girl called Lyra whose friend, Roger, gets caught by Gobblers. She has many adventures on her way to finding him but when she does, she finds out he is not the only one to be rescued…
This book has been turned into a movie called ‘the Golden Compass’ – that was the book’s original title.
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