Review: The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials, #3)
Gaby Meares
I am so glad to have finally caught up with this amazing trilogy. Now I understand what all the fuss was about!
There are so many reviews already, I’m not going to go on about this last instalment. However, I do have a small quibble, that other reviewers found unforgivable, but I forgive Mr Pullman! We lose the Lyra that we have grown to love and admire in the previous two novels. She becomes all doe-eyed and subservient to Will when they finally “ fall in love”. Up to that point, she was the hero, and then she turned into a love-sick girlie-girl. That is not who Will fell in love with, or, for that matter, the reader.
However, the story races to a cracking conclusion, and one that I found very moving. So, still 5 stars from me.