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sandman_1961 's review for:
La Belle Sauvage
by Philip Pullman
Enjoyed this book.
Clearly it is difficult to follow a hugely, critically acclaimed, venture like the Dark Materials Trilogy. However, this book had a reasonable story and was an engaging read.
There were a few odd transitions throughout that made it a bit strange. One minute there is an adventure story and the next we seem to have landed in some kind of dystopian Midsummer Nights Dream for a couple of chapters. The we are back to the adventure...
Maybe the next two books are going to tie things together. I only ever had the full trilogy, but I can imagine that the first book of the series may have been considered a bit odd if stood by itself?
Certainly wouldn't criticise it as much as some reviews here.
It did help having an understanding of the human-daemon relationship from the Dark Materials and I would certainly point a new reader to those books first.
Clearly it is difficult to follow a hugely, critically acclaimed, venture like the Dark Materials Trilogy. However, this book had a reasonable story and was an engaging read.
There were a few odd transitions throughout that made it a bit strange. One minute there is an adventure story and the next we seem to have landed in some kind of dystopian Midsummer Nights Dream for a couple of chapters. The we are back to the adventure...
Maybe the next two books are going to tie things together. I only ever had the full trilogy, but I can imagine that the first book of the series may have been considered a bit odd if stood by itself?
Certainly wouldn't criticise it as much as some reviews here.
It did help having an understanding of the human-daemon relationship from the Dark Materials and I would certainly point a new reader to those books first.