The Subtle Knife - Philip Pullman Reviews

If anybody reads this review, which I doubt that they will do, can they please tell me what the title is supposed to mean. It totally confused me and I'm wandering whether it did to anybody else. (I'm not sure about the subtle part) Anyway this book, unfortunately, was a bit of a let down for me. I didn?t feel that this book ...  Read the complete review

Pullman really knows how to captivate an audience.Every single word seems to allow the story to come to life. This is one of those books which pulses in your veins and makes your skin prickle with anxious sweat. This is a gripping read about the possibiltity of our views on life being crumbled into meaninglesness as it dawns on the characters ...  Read the complete review

Northern Lights, the first of the trilogy, ends with such suspense, that it would be impossible for anyone not to read The Subtle Knife. The story is no longer about Lyra saving her friend Roger, but a much bigger task is on her hands. Instead of just being in one world, lyra discovers a way to get into a different world altogether, and at the ...  Read the complete review

A cracking well told story The Subtle Knife is one of the best and imaginative books that I have read, And I have read hundreds. I recently only started reading children's adventures and some of them are better than the adult alliterative. Books like the Harry Potter series and His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman are some of these ...  Read the complete review