THE BOOK OF DUST BY PHILIP PULLMAN (2017 & 2019)- This series serves as both a prequel and a sequel to the original His Dark Materials series. The first book, La Belle Sauvage, takes place when Lyra is a baby. Floods and conspiracies strike Oxford and a young boy named Malcolm goes on a quest to protect Lyra. It is an exciting adventure and a great reintroduction to that world. Malcolm is a cool character, brave and loyal and protective, and his friend Alice is a badass. The Secret Commonwealth takes place twenty years later, ten years after the original series ended. Lyra is now an undergraduate student at Oxford and gets tangled up in a whole new web of betrayal and deceit and murder. This series is darker than the original one. Lyra is older and more mature, and has gained a new view of the world though her education and readings. She spends much of the book struggling with who she is and who she wants to be. She ends up on a new adventure where she is almost killed multiple times and even endures an attempted rape. Malcolm is older, too, and helps Lyra on her adventure while going on his own. I’m enjoying the series so far and am eager to see how it ends. The religious order is spreading their influence in any way necessary, which is fascinating to watch. The anti-religion stance is definitely still strong in these books. There is also very little levity to even our the darker tone, which can be hard to bear sometimes. I do like the more mature Lyra, especially as she gains wisdom along with her maturity. Her relationship with Malcolm is kind of strange, though. He is in love with Lyra despite being more than a decade older, and it is implied that she might return those feelings, or least have the potential to. I can’t wait to see how the series ends. #bookofdust #philippullman #lyrasilvertongue https://www.instagram.com/p/B8rg7kbghIk/?igshid=1crecwnpmfo6l
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