![]() ![]() ![]() When La Belle Sauvage, the first installment in The Book of Dust, came out in 2017, it lived up to my mixed expectations. ![]() And in recent years, franchise after franchise after franchise has proven me right, with the rare exceptions–like The Heroes of Olympus and The Last King of Osten Ard–coming more as pleasant surprises than anything else. ![]() I’ve always believed that when something is finished, it should be left alone, lest later installments tarnish the memory of the original. See, I get invested in the stories I love, but I’ve never been the kind of fan who constantly needs new content to keep my attention from wandering. So you can imagine how excited I was when I learned that Pullman was planning to revisit his best-known work in a new “equel” trilogy called The Book of Dust. Or maybe you can’t imagine, because the answer was “not very.” The Amber Spyglass in particular has an awful lot to answer for when it comes to my future career choices (damn you, Pullman, if you’d just let Lyra and Will stay together, I could have my student loans paid off by now). Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is one of my life’s most enduring obsessions. This post contains spoilers for every volume in His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust. ![]()
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