A review by andrewspink
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman

5.0

Very enjoyable, a great page-turner, the 500+ pages were devoured in no time. Although ostensibly a children's or young adult's book, it has enough complexity and depth of character that it can be read by anyone with no problem. And although it is a prequel, I don't think that it is necessary to have read the Dark Materials trilogy in order to understand everything in this book; it's so long since I read those that I'm sure I've forgotten more of it. Lyra is a central figure in those books, but it is obvious enough from this one that Lyra has an important figure and the details are not so relevant.