His Dark Materials
(All the books summary)
BOOK 1: The Golden Compass
Lyra Belacqua is daring and adventurous, when she finds out that Lord Asriel, her uncle, is meant to be poisoned by the Master of her Jordan college, her school, she stops him.
But, if only Lyra had listened to her dæmon (A talking animal who is part of their human), Pantalaimon, and had let it be, none of the adventures and dangerous events would have happened.
The Master of Jordan College gives her a truth telling, compass-like invention, called the alethiometer, which he said would help her on her tough journey. Little does Lyra know how much.
Everyone in town knows about the Gobblers. They kidnapped kids and supposedly ate them. But when she finds out that was a twisted truth, she’s running for her life with the gypsies.
Lyra finds out that her dead parents are still alive and that Lord Asriel is her father, her mother is Ms. Coulter, a woman who Lyra once admired, but is now running away from.
Lyra and the gypsies travel through snowy mountains and reach a town where they meet Iorek Byrnison, an armoured bear.
Iorek helps them through their perilous journey and when Lyra goes to Svalbard, (The armoured bears capital) where she challenges Iofur Raknison, the king of the bears to fight with Iorek Byrnison, in order to release Lord Asriel from the bear’s prison.
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BOOK 2: The Subtle Knife
Lyra travels to another world and meets Will Parry, a boy looking for his father who went missing when he was a small baby.
They both search for Dust, something which comes on adults and stop their dæmons from changing their forms.
They join forces and help each other along the way, where they encounter a young man, guarding a valuable weapon called the subtle knife. The knife can cut through anything, metal, flesh, even worlds.
They need to get the Subtle Knife to help them, but a man already has it. It’s a tough fight between Will and the man, but luckily, Will wins in the end.
Will becomes the Bearer of the Subtle Knife, even though he doesn't want it. They are both fighting for their lives now. With searching for something called Dust, men after will, Lyra constantly being chased by her mother, can they find Dust and prevent war?
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BOOK 3: The Amber Spyglass
Mary Malone (From our world not Lyra’s), a scientist and researcher, hears about Dust from Lyra, and is intrigued , since a couple of days ago she heard about something called Shadows, which was uncannily similar.
Mary leaves her job to go and explore other worlds and finds animals with wheels as legs! These are called Mulefas and Mary goes to live with them and learn about them.
Meanwhile, Lyra was captured and taken hostage by her mother, in order to protect Lyra from a war.
Lyra dreams of her dead friend Roger and when she wakes up, she and Will embark upon an adventure, to go to the Land of The Dead.
There they meet harpies, ghosts and they leave their dæmons behind (Which causes an unthinkable pain and sadness) to save their friend.
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WHAT I THOUGHT OF THIS BOOK
(All the books summary)
I absolutely loved loved loved loved loved this book. I haven’t read many horror, scary, action books, but now I think I will!
The plot was so well connected that every time a twist + a turn happened, I'm almost sure I heard my brain *click* and I said “Ohh!” out loud!
This book was super fun to read, full of action, suspense, horror-ish things and millions of twists and turns. I don't like unbelievable fantasy books so much. I usually like realistic-ish (But not non-fiction) books but now I really love them because of this trilogy.
Will and Lyra were such amazing and brave characters. I love all the characters; from Will & Lyra, to their dæmons, even to Iorek Byrnison.
I had seen a bit of the series and I got spooked (I admit) and I didn't watch it, but I was running out of books so I read His Dark Materials and now it’s turned out to be my new favourite book!
Overall; this is an EPIC, awesome, amazing, fantastic, super, wow-worthy book. If you haven't caught on yet, I rate it 10 out of 10 and I DEFINITELY recommend it!