so, i finished the book tonite as promised. but what a letdown, what an anticlimax! i was expecting more but as my daughter perceptedly commented, 'pullman seems to have run out of ideas!'. i think i would agree with her.
after the big battle between the forces of lord asriel and metatron, culminating in the drop into the abyss, the suspense is still there. what happened to lord asriel and mrs coulthier? did they fall in too? did they perish together with metatron? what about the assassin? man, what a letdown. he didn't even get near to do his job to kill mary but drowned in a pool of water. what about the Dust? ok, now we know why they escaping all over the place. every window cut opened with the knife let the Dust escape (but every window cut opened also creates a Specter? that takes a ton to swallow).
anyway, with a few minor surprises here and there, the ending is quite lame. everyone goes back to his or her own world. so, the boy Wiil and the girl Lyra loved each other but this is not to be. they go back to their own world and that's it. that's all? yup, that's all folks. unless, pullman was thinking of a sequel (is lyra's oxford supposed to be a sequel or an entirely new series on its own).
after the big battle between the forces of lord asriel and metatron, culminating in the drop into the abyss, the suspense is still there. what happened to lord asriel and mrs coulthier? did they fall in too? did they perish together with metatron? what about the assassin? man, what a letdown. he didn't even get near to do his job to kill mary but drowned in a pool of water. what about the Dust? ok, now we know why they escaping all over the place. every window cut opened with the knife let the Dust escape (but every window cut opened also creates a Specter? that takes a ton to swallow).
anyway, with a few minor surprises here and there, the ending is quite lame. everyone goes back to his or her own world. so, the boy Wiil and the girl Lyra loved each other but this is not to be. they go back to their own world and that's it. that's all? yup, that's all folks. unless, pullman was thinking of a sequel (is lyra's oxford supposed to be a sequel or an entirely new series on its own).
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