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A review by daumari
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
4.0
Unlike other coming-of-age fantasy books where we spend a lot of time camping, this time we're on a canoe, floating/paddling towards London for... a while.
Overall, I liked it and baby daemon Pan is adorable but I'm curious how this second trilogy will go- is it all prequel, or do we have a time jump in The Secret Commonwealth? (I uh, did a web search and saw some age things) The tricky thing with prequels is we know where they're generally headed, but it's nice to spend more time in a world from our childhood.
Dr. Hannah Relf reminds me of Dr. Mary Malone in her mentorship of young Malcolm, and that's probably intentional.
Definite darkness in this one (TW: sexual assault referenced and implied, also murder) but the original ALSO was surprisingly dark for a middle-grade-to-YA.
Overall, I liked it and baby daemon Pan is adorable but I'm curious how this second trilogy will go- is it all prequel, or do we have a time jump in The Secret Commonwealth? (I uh, did a web search and saw some age things) The tricky thing with prequels is we know where they're generally headed, but it's nice to spend more time in a world from our childhood.
Dr. Hannah Relf reminds me of Dr. Mary Malone in her mentorship of young Malcolm, and that's probably intentional.
Definite darkness in this one (TW: sexual assault referenced and implied, also murder) but the original ALSO was surprisingly dark for a middle-grade-to-YA.