"We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glistening in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.”

Rating: 4 stars

The Amber Spyglass is the final part of the His Dark Materials trilogy, and there's no way I can summarise the plot without a mass of spoilers. If you've gotten this far, you're in it til the end anyway.

I read the first 50 pages of this, then for some reason I really struggled to continue with it, and guilt-read 4 books instead of continuing with it. Once I'd pushed through the first part of the book, I was suckered in by the ridiculously engaging plot, and Pullman's amazing worldbuilding (even if I still think Lyra's world is the best world) and I paced through the rest of the book in a couple of days.

I can't really go into much detail without delving into spoiler territory, but it's safe to say that Pullman doesn't lose momentum on this series and Amber Spyglass is definitely a worthy final book. It's a ya book, sure, but it's beautifully complex and extremely powerful and the moral lessons being taught are so important, even if the ending did leave me utterly heartbroken.