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The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

1 review

crykea's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Wonderful wonderful wonderful! Finishing this book made me go "well, what  the fuck."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Confinement, Death of parent, Kidnapping, War, Violence, Death, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol, Animal cruelty, Blood, Child death, Mental illness, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Stalking, Suicide, and Terminal illness

The minor content warnings are mentioned briefly in the

realm of death.

. Alcohol is drunk by characters throughout the book. Will's mother is mentioned in a few cases, hence the mental illness warnings. Animal cruelty happens throughout the book since the characters have daemons. The golden monkey especially likes to hurt animals. (Stalking)

will and lyra are stalked by father Gomez in the mulefa's world

Explicit content warnings: the book takes place during a religious war. There is a scene with a bomb (hence the fire warning). Confinement, kidnapping, death and grief warnings:

mrs coulier is kidnapped and confined by multiple people throughout the book, most often lord Asriel. Lyra begins the book in confinement after being kidnapped by Mrs Coulier as the end of the last book. The death of a parent tags refer to Lord Asriel and Mrs Coulier in the Metatron scene. The book has a through line theme of grief but it is especially poignant st the end in reference to will and lyra parting ways.