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Average rating3.9
**LYRA SILVERTONGUE** thought her adventuring days were long over. Now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia's College, she could almost begin to doubt that she'd once traveled to the world of the dead were it not for the painful separation from her daemon, Pantalaimon.
But intrigue is swirling around Lyra once more. Pantalaimon witnesses a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry shocking echoes of their past. They learn of a city haunted by daemons, and of a desert rose said to reveal the nature of Dust.
Even these small scraps of knowledge are dangerous. Lyra is being watched and followed--and inexorably drawn back into a battle she thought she'd left behind.
On the run, she seeks refuge with the gyptians, and finds a surprising new ally in Malcolm Polstead. But hers aren't the kind of troubles you can hide from. And the journey in front of her is one Lyra must navigate alone if she is to emerge whole.
This description comes from the publisher. *The Secret Commonwealth* is the second volume of The Book of Dust; this is the sequel series to the His Dark Materials series, the first of which is *The Golden Compass* or *Northern Lights*.
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2 primary booksThe Book of Dust is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2017 with contributions by Philip Pullman.
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What a journey! When I heard this book would be about Lyra some years after the original trilogy, I didn't expect at all what I eventually got to read!
I loved how this wasn't just some other adventure happening to Lyra. There were characters from both La Belle Sauvage and His Dark Materials whose significance I only found out about in this book where they got their own plot lines, bundled up wonderfully into a thrilling story!
But damn that cliffhanger!
Where to start?? I felt like the book dragged for the first half but after sticking with it, it got much better and the action started :) I truly did not like Lyra or Pan at the start of the book (which is saying a lot because I love them in “His Dark Materials”). However, Lyra started growing on me in the second half and is coming back to the character I loved in the first triology. I'm a little upset it ended on a cliffhanger even though I know a 3rd book is coming out. Overall, a solid story with great character development and great action.
Hmm. Not sure about this one. I really liked exploring human-daemon relationships but felt like the plot about the roses was background noise I mostly ignored. I think it'd be 3.5 stars