The Amber Spyglass

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Call Number: Y BOCD Fiction
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids 4-week checkout	Y BOCD Fiction	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact discs.
Unabridged.
Performed by the author and a full cast.
Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Amazing submitted by zmclaugh on July 27, 2018, 12:54pm This is a great conclusion to a great series and I love listening to it with a full cast.

Wonderful submitted by lstorc on August 31, 2018, 1:01am This was a fantastic finale to The Golden Compass trilogy! Fantastic read

not that great submitted by VanCancue on August 10, 2020, 4:00pm This story just moves along. I wasn't impressed by how this story was told.

I was under the impression this was primarily a fantasy fiction however the spiritual and political aspects were too religiously inclined for a fantastical view. But it was interesting how well these aspects were intertwined.


The character Lyra though attempting to be righteous and considerate was erratic and irksome. I believe the audiobook voice actors for lyra portrayed the character this way. The HBO series did a more likable job. Both mother and daughter were portrayed similarly with wavering loyalties. Really did not like the portrayal of the lead females in this book.

I had to read this audiobook at higher speed. certainly not my cup of tea but excellently adapted by the HBO TV series.

Despite being an avid fantasy fiction reader the way Lyra extrapolated lengthy detailed stories from the alethiometer made no sense despite cosmic like connection to dust.....

The parallel Mary Malone and mulefa story seemed barely connected and didn't seem to truly belong to this story but rather an appendix.

As much as I could get through the first two books with a moderate pace the final story pace was so slow it took me weeks to get through. Despite all this the story is great but tedious.

Most of the story seemed to be conversational with two singular non adventurous ventures running in parallel waiting to meet up with an eventful ending in the last 30%.

Excellent finale submitted by ckay15 on August 18, 2020, 11:50pm Really good conclusion to this series. I agree with the above reviewer though, the Mary Malone storyline seemed completely unrelated and did not add to the plot for me.