a companion animal that talks to them and physically represents their soul, so that they are joined together for life.
One of the master-strokes of the concept is that everyone in her world has a “daemon,” i.e. Lyra’s world is very interesting in its similarities and differences to our own. Who will win? Will the second fall turn out like the first? They come together across the dimensions to fight against the forces of darkness in the heavenly places…or to be moved about like pawns on a cosmic battlefield between God and the devil. These stories bring together a boy from our world (?) and a girl from a parallel world in which the Reformation, the Age of Reason, and the Industrial Revolution never happened and the Church reigns supreme.
Purchase hereAt the urgent request of many, many Book Trolley visitors, I feel compelled to put in a word or three about Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy, a teen-oriented fantasy series that includes the books The Northern Lights (The Golden Compass), The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass.
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