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Book of Dust
2 Reviews
(2)
YA
Book of Dust series.
Don't start here. While bibliographically this second entry in the trilogy follows La Belle Sauvage, biographically it picks up when Lyra is twenty, with the events of the initial His Dark Materials trilogy ten years in her past. The novel is rich in incident but sprawling. Devotees will enjoy the often-surprising but neatly done connections to the previous volumes, however this book provides no resolutions to any of the conflicts and quests it proposes.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
November, 2019
(2)
4-6
Book of Dust series.
This prequel to the His Dark Materials trilogy finds infant Lyra in the care of eleven-year-old Malcolm, an appealingly sturdy hero. Malcolm, accomplice Alice, and the baby make their way to hoped-for safety through flooded Oxford. Although set a decade before The Golden Compass, readers should start there--a good deal of this entry's pleasure comes from familiarity with the world's conventions and characters.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton
| Horn Book Magazine Issue:
January, 2018
2 reviews
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