The series started so well. The Golden Compass was a solid adventure with the standard steampunk tropes. It was a good, fun read. He should have stopped there. The Subtle Knife was less adventurous, preachier and introduced characters I had no reason to care about. And The Amber Spyglass took that and ran with it. I still cared mildly about Lyra and Will, but I couldn’t care less about the rest of the characters.The whole Let’s Kill God battle jerked me right out of their world because now I had to analyze what he considered God to be and why does he want God dead and etc… It turned what could have been a great adventure story into a theological slog.
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