The Subtle Knife (The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman)

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Product:	The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman
Date:	26/04/08 (26 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: great story and well told

Disadvantages: not quite as good as the first

This is the second book in Phillip Pullmans 'his dark materials' trilogy and while being not quite as good as The Northern lights is still a spectecular story told by a truly brilliant author. Once again Pullman combines brilliant settings and descriptions with an enthrolling storyline. Again the settings are probably not quite as good as in the first book but this is down to a different world where the places are not quite as spectacular as they are in Lyra's world, where the first book is set.

This story starts with Will who is only a 12 year old boy but has just killed a man and doesn't know why. Know he is on the run and alone and confused, but the one thing that keeps him going is his detemination to find out about his fathers disapperance. Will running using the same knife he used to kill the man, Will somehow cuts a window in space leading to a different world, which he steps through in order to escape. This world is very different to his own and is filled with danger not only from the soul eating Spectres but also from many of the people there too.

Shortly after entering this new and strange world Will finds himself a companion, a young girl named Lyra (the main charcter from The Northern Lighs). Like Will she has a mission and they agree to be friends and help each other complete their missions, which they feel may be linked, at all costs.

The story then follows these two charcters and their jouney to discover what they need to know to complete their missions. As in all Pullman novels it has many twists and turns which manke the story all the more exciting to read, and combined with his brilliant storytelling makes it a magnificiant book.

Summary: definate read but only after the first