Lynnie 
Note: Amy read this book before we started blogging our book reviews but she really enjoyed it and gave it 4 stars!
fantasy, young adult
Soon to be a mini-series, (it was already a movie) I decided it was time to start Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series. The heroine, Lyra, is described in the book blurb as a savage, a schemer, a liar, as well as a fierce and true champion. She is loyal, curious, and gifted in ways that are not always understood as you read the story. Vowing to save her friend Roger and to find her uncle, Lord Asriel, Lyra takes a long journey north with a cast of characters who are alternately terrifying, fascinating, and wonderful as she heads toward a destiny she does not fully understand.
This book took me WAY longer to read than I anticipated. I enjoyed the story, and the characters, but also found lots of things to do other than read it, which is unusual for me. I wanted to be captivated but I really never was. Lyra was a wonderful character and the world she lives in was always fascinating and filled with an interesting assortment of characters. Still, it wasn’t a story that compelled me forward. There was never a moment where I was impatient to find out what would happen next and very few things in the story surprised me.
Overall it was good, and maybe at a different time I would have been more enraptured by it, but sadly I wasn’t.
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