Book Review: La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust, #1)
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
La Belle Sauvage is an interesting revisiting of Lyra’s world as developed in Pullman’s original series, His Dark Materials. Instead of continuing the story from where it left off at the end of The Amber Spyglass, we go back to the very beginning. Lyra’s beginning. We see that the wild adventure of her life didn’t start in The Golden Compass, but mere months into her life. The events that befell her before she had even spoken her first words are enough to put most adults in therapy.
“Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.”