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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)

The Subtle Knife
Author: Philip Pullman
Genre: Children
Series: His Dark Materials
Publisher: Scholastic Point
Published: 10/16/1998
Goodreads Rating: 4.13
Will is twelve years old and he's just killed a man. Now he's on his own, on the run, determined to discover the truth about his father disappearance. Then Will steps through a window in the air into another world, and finds himself with a companion - a strange, savage little girl called Lyra. Like Will, she has a mission which she intends to carry out at all costs. But the world of Cittàgazze is…

(Adventure and Fantasy. Second of a Trilogy)

Having been pulled along on the terrifying and break-neck speed adventures of 12 year old Lyra Belacqua in the first of Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials trilogy, The Subtle Knife takes over at just as fast a pace! This time the story is of Will who is on the run after killing a man. As he attempts to find his father, he discovers a different world with Lyra, her daemon and her quest to find the elusive Dark Matter. It’s a great story with lots of adventure, drama and peril. Lyra is one of my favourite characters in any book.

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