lindseybc 's review for:

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
5.0

I LOVED this book. It is so beautifully written. I love the effortless way this world, so like ours and yet not, is described. I love the characters. I love how even though we live in a world where humans don’t have daemons (spirit animals connected to our souls) we can feel, and empathise with, the anguish and horror felt when a human soul is disconnected from its daemon. That is some seriously clever writing from Pullman. I have the trilogy in one book but decided to plow through a few others before continuing with book 2. I can’t wait to see what Lyra gets up to next though. She is one feisty, brave and yet so damn real little kid.