At some point, I stopped, stunned: This is the REAL world, I realized. I think I read most scenes in the first two chapters two or three times. It took remarkably long for me to get oriented in Will’s world. In the opening chapter, he kills one of these intruders, meaning that the police will soon be looking for him. Will is fourteen, and when we meet him, he is trying to persuade his piano teacher to let his senile mother live with her so he can protect a green briefcase and fight off the thugs who keep breaking into his house to try to steal it. The first chapter is about Will Parry, a character who is not part of The Golden Compass. In this book – which is also the shortest of the three – we learn or intuit a great deal more about why Lyra’s world is so weirdly skewed and about how the various plot lines that began in The Golden Compass fit together. The second installment in this trilogy is my favorite, I think. This review contains what the young people call “spoilers.” Read at your own risk.
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