A review by jaelynx
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

5.0

Amid the witches and armoured PolarBears, the His Dark Materials trilogy flips Paradise Lost with a celebration of the original sin and culminating in a new war against god to build a Republic of Heaven. What struck me reading the first book as a kid was the heroine being given a non-traditionally feminine skill of lying/manipulation and being celebrated for it as “Lyra Silvertongue”.