I was really excited to read this book. I found the book to be more fulfilling and detailed than the movie. I usually do not read and watch books that get turned into movies because I get upset if the details aren’t exactly like they are in the books. Irrational I know, but no one said that I was perfect.

I didn’t quite understand why so much was changed in the movie that did not follow the path in the book. In the book, Lyra was told her biological mother, Marisa Coulter that she was her mother. However, in the book, John Faa told her. In the movie, Lyra didn’t make it to her dad, Lord Asriel. However, in the book, she did make it see Lord Asriel and he was cruel to her.

My favorite scene in the movie was when Serafina Pekkala came down to speak to Lyra when she was at the top of the boat alone. However, in the book, Serafina Pekkala’s demon came to see her but it wasn’t there to see Lyra but to see John Faa.

Also, I was expecting a more detailed account of how the last bear king died in the book. However, the book revealed that King Iorfur Rakinson killed his dad and not Iorek Byrnison dad, as the movie portrayed.

The Golden Compass left me feeling uneasy. In the movie, Roger went to sleep and agreed to help Lyra “make things right.” However, in the book Roger dies. In the book, Lyra and her demon decide to stop her father from stopping dust from being in the universe.

I was not expecting what happened between Lyra’s parents, Lord Asriel and Marisa Coulter. I won’t spoil that for you!

Lyra whining constantly throughout the book gave me an uneasy feeling like Harry Potter but I will push through and try to finish this series.

Although I felt like I was reading one story and watched another story in the movie, I found them both to be entertaining. If I was you, I would read the book and skip the movie or vice versa. I do not know what direction the movie is going on.