'𝑌𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆, 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐'

'𝑌𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒙𝒆𝒅.'

'𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅, 𝒘𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒆.'


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I can't count the amount of times I have read this book and every time I pick it up it's like snuggling up under a warm blanket.

Pullman's style soothes my soul. The tone is very YA and yet it' never shies away from tackling big ideas and it never patronises. 

The older I get, and the wider my reading becomes the more I pull out of this book and the deeper my connection to the characters becomes.

And just like when I watch Romeo and Juliet and I'm holding my breath that the ending somehow changed since the last time I watched it, the end of this one still makes my breath catch.

If you've never picked this series up, I heartily recommend it.

𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒐𝒎 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒖𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒐𝒃𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒎𝒊𝒕 

𝑌𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆? 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆!

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I find it harder to decide which of this trilogy is my favourite but I know that this one is an absolute masterpiece.

The intricacies; the weaving of narration; the allegorical meanderings and the scale of the influences that Pullman gathered into this novel are mind-blowing. Every time I read it, I make new connections and am teased down new paths of thought. 

And this is a book that only becomes more rich with more experience under your belt (yeah I know, right?) experience of life, of reading, of the world and human nature. Every time I come back to it, I think I might lose something in that moving away from the young mind I had when I first read it and it blew me away and led me down a path of study that changed the course if my life. But it just gives me more every time.