Author: Philip Pullman
Pages: 351
Genre: Fantasy
Grade: A-
Synopsis: Lyra Belacqua is an orphan living at Jordan College in Oxford, England. Lyra's Oxford is not like our own. Everybody has a daemon in animal form, which is analogous to our souls. Lyra spends her days racing along the roofs of the college, playing in the mud with her dear friend Roger and wreaking havoc wherever she can. This continues until she spies an attempt to poison her uncle, which sets things in motion that leads her on a journey to save children who are being abducted and taken somewhere to the north.
My Review: I've read this book once before, but I wanted to re-read it before I got into the rest of the His Dark Materials Trilogy (Original review). I really enjoy the story and was excited to find the full trilogy for cheap at the DI. Lyra is a precocious pre-teen with a big heart and who is not afraid of big ideas.
Since January 3, 2007
1 comment:
I realized today that there are two different books called "The Rent Collector". The one you should read is by Camron Wright. I haven't read the other one, but I didn't want you to read it and wonder why I'd recommend such a weird/awful/possibly vulgar book.
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