| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Books |
| Genre: | Science Fiction & Fantasy |
| Author: | Philip Pullman |
Mrs. Coulter took Lyra back into their world. She kept her in a cave in the Himalayas, giving Lyra medicine inducing sleep for days and days. She pretends to be a hermit caring for her sleep enchanted daughter. Ama a village girl goes there constantly to bring fruits and flowers.
Cigazze: All the witches that were protecting Lyra and Will died from the Specters. Will was now alone in his quest to find Lyra. Not for long, he is just found out that two angels Baruch and Balthamos were going to help him. They are angels who support the cause of Lord Asriel and would like to bring Will to Lord Asriel because of the subtle knife. Before that they had to help Will find Lyra. Baruch led the way, until in they came across Metatron the Regent of the Almighty. He was the second most powerful angel and was after Baruch and Balthamos because of the information they knew about the Clouded Mountain (Where the Almighty was seated.) Will helped them escape and decided that Baruch should go immediately to Lord Asriel while Balthamos had to stay and guide Will to Lyra. They went Lyra’s world.
Serafina Pekkala informs Iorek Byrnison of Lee Scoresby’s death.
Ama the village girl finds a cure for Lyra’s sleep enchantment. She also learns that Mrs. Coulter is the behind the sleep enchantment.
Baruch was able to reach Lord Asriel. But he was on the brink of death. He was able to inform Lord Asriel that the Almighty/the Creator/the Authority was not god but an Angel himself. The very first angel. Metatron was now leading the forces and they plan to build a new replubic, focusing on meddling with human affairs. He tells Lord Asriel about the subtle knife and the exact location of Lyra.
Dr. Malone enters the world of the Mulefa. Diamond-shaped wheeled people. (Really, I’m not going to elaborate on this, Philip Pullman had done enough.)
The Church, now that they know that Lyra is Eve. They have now planned to kill her. They also know where she is kept. Troops are sent there as well. Father Gomez is now sent to kill Lyra. By following the tempter (Dr. Malone), who will lead him to Lyra.
Will now travelling with the grief stricken Balthamos (felt Baruch died) to a town where he met Iorek Byrnison. They became immediate friends and decided to work together to help get Lyra back. There were now three forces coming for Lyra and Mrs. Coulter, Lord Asriel’s army with his gyropters, the Church’s Zeppelins and Will. Will gets there first, talks to Mrs. Coulter and was enchanted by her. That night they went for Lyra. He was able to cut a different world where they will escape. While battling Mrs. Coulter the knife breaks. In comes the Gallvaspians, small creatures working for Lord Asriel and stings Mrs. Coulter. There is a battle fought outside the cave gun fires exchanged between Lord Asriel’s forces and the Church. Will and Lyra were able to escape to a different world. Mrs. Coulter was captured by Lord Asriel’s army.
The alethiometer told Lyra that Iorek Byrnison may be able to mend the knife. They go to Iorek Byrnison and he fixed it. Their next destination: The world of the dead. Apparently there is a world of the dead. There is no heaven or hell everyone’s ghosts go here. Lyra wants to go and see Roger. She wants to apologize for causing his death. Will will go with Lyra and also talk to his dad.
Mrs. Coulter, captive of Lord Asriel was able to charm her way to the council of Lord Asriel (Now we know where Lyra got her natural talent of lying.) She is now only concerned for the well being of Lyra. She then steals the intentional craft and the spy Lord Roke followed her to the church.
While living with the Mulefa, Dr. Mary Malone invented the Amber spyglass (yey! Hence the title), an apparatus that can see Dust/Shadows/Sraf.
Lyra, Will and the Gallivespians reached the suburbs of the dead by following the ghosts they’ve seen in a new world (yet again, that knife is working way beyond its book title.) They learn that in order to go to the world of the dead you have to be lead there by your own death. Lyra met her death for the first time and they were lead to a boat that will bring them to the world of the dead. But in order to ride the boat , Lyra must leave Pan behind! Deamons are not allowed the world of the dead. Will also left his. They travel inside, met up with Roger and Lyra decided to free all the ghosts in the world of the dead. Will would then cut a hole to the world outside.
Mrs. Coulter brought the intentional craft to the church in Geneva. She planned to act as a spy for Lord Asriel in order to find out Lyra’s location. The church had a different plan in mind. They created this bomb that was intended to kill Lyra, all it needed was a piece of Lyra. They took some of Lyra’s hair from Mrs. Coulter’s Locket. The bomb exploded, but did not hit Lyra, instead it created an Abyss in the world of the dead. Mrs. Coulter was once again rescued by Lord Asriel.
After a very long journey, Will was able to cut a hole into the world outside and freed all the ghosts that could tell good true stories about their lives. Will and Lyra’s next goal was to find their deamons. (As was the goal of Metatron and Lord Asriel’s camp) The church needed to get to the deamons in order to control Lyra and get the subtle knife from Will. Another battle was at hand. The Clouded mountain was now placed near Lord Asriel’s fortress. In the midst of battle, Mrs. Coulter ventured on her own. She went directly to Metatron and seduced him, lied to him to lead him to Lord Asriel. The plan was to bring Metatron down into the abyss. After much grappling, Lord Asriel, Metatron and Mrs. Coulter, they all fell into the abyss and the Regent was no more. The authority, whom Metatron decided that should be transferred to the different location from the Clouded Mountain was released by Will and Lyra and got absorbed by nature. The great battle was over. (not much of a battle.) Will and Lyra went to the cave where the abyss was located. Their deamons were surrounded by Specters. They can see Specters now, so it means they’ve grown up! They took their deamons and went to the world of Dr. Malone.
Dr. Malone had problem, Dust was running out of the world. The consciousness, the source of all life, Dust. So Will and Lyra met up with Dr. Malone. They told stories of all their adventures. Dr. Mary Malone “tempted” the two by telling the story of why she left her life as a nun. This was because she fell in love with a man. Lyra and Will realized that they were in love with each other. This Love was now the source of Dust. By looking at the amber spyglass, Dr. Malone saw that Dust went back to its original flow and the two were surrounded by Dust. Serafina Pekkala shows up with a message for the deamons. Will and Lyra’s deamons return to them. The deamons and an Angel tell them of the news. The reason why Dust is running out is because of all the cuts in the different worlds. All openings should then be closed in all of the worlds. This means that Lyra and Will would not be able to see each other ever. Lyra also lost her power/skill in reading the alethiometer. And Pan has settled into a Pine Marten and Will’s Kirjava settled into a cat. The gyptians picked them up and brought them back to Cigazze. Lyra goes back to Will’s world for one last time and after their bitter sweet goodbye, they’ve decided to live their lives to the fullest not wasting any moment of it. Now Lyra will go into all girls’ boarding school.
Thoughts:
Loved it. Just a few things that bugged me.. we the whole Mulefa thing was not so entertaining. And well the battle, after Metatron who fell into the abyss, it seems like nothing happened afterwards. Who won? The Lord Asriel? How? I thought the only way for Lord Asriel to win the battle is if he got the subtle knife? And if Mrs. Coulter got tired of holding Metatron’s wings, can’t he just flap them and fly up again? It also seems that the author really liked Mrs. Coulter. This woman rocked! She turned from super bitch to super Mom! After the whole ending of the Authority, the story turned into a Shakespeare romance. It’s great though, how the message of the whole book was to live your lives to the fullest and don’t let the church suppress you. Cause in the book, you will only be freed from the world of the dead if you had true stories to tell on how you lived your life. All in all, it was a great book, and it’s the first time I’ve read a fantasy fiction of the Catholic Church being a tyrant. And how the angels envied the living. It’s weird to see and read all the holy figures playing a part in this whole story. Now, I’m moving on to Lyra’s oxford.
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