{"id":1019,"date":"2016-01-11T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T15:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2020-02-22T22:24:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T16:54:16","slug":"book-review-the-subtle-knife-by-philip-pullman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/book-review-the-subtle-knife-by-philip-pullman\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Subtle Knife <\/em> follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua in search of the truth about ‘Dust’ as she travels to and fro three parallel universes. She finds a companion in the young Will Parry whom she meets on the way.\u00a0On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will discover an object of unimaginable yet devastating\u00a0power – The Subtle Knife.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Northern Lights<\/em>, Lyra and her daemon undertake a journey to rescue children kidnapped by Gobblers and to know more about \u2018Dust\u2019. There were armoured polar bears, nomadic Gyptians and flying witches who safeguard a prophecy about Lyra. The Subtle Knife <\/em>is just as amazing as the first book. It is spread across three parallel universes- Lyra\u2019s, our own non magical world and another world named Cittagazze where orphaned children roam free and evil Spectres eat adults. Lyra stumbles onto Cittagazze at the end of Northern Lights<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In The Subtle Knife<\/em> we are introduced to an Oxford which is\u00a0more like our own. (If you remember, in Lyra\u2019s Oxford, everyone had their souls residing out of the body in the form of daemons that could change forms till puberty). The book opens with a twelve year old Will Parry on the run because he has killed a man. Will stumbles onto Cittagazze through an invisible crack in the air and meets Lyra. Will needs to find his father who has been missing for many years and Lyra is guided to Mary Maloney (in our-world-Oxford), a physicist who has been doing research on Dust\u2019 in the name of dark matter, by her alethiometer.<\/p>\n