This was a very entertaining book. The main character in this story goes on an incredible journey and through her journey, you can see the changes in her personality and emoitons. What I really liked about this book is that everyone has their own demon, an animal that can change. These demon's are apart of the human's souls. When the demons felt pain, so would their human. I think it was cleaver of the author to have the demons change into different animals when their human partner was still a child. When the children grows up, their demon can no longer change into different animals, but must settle on one animal. It's this kind of fun and creative ideas that are great material for fantasy stories. I know that while reading about Lyra and her demon, Pan, reading their friendship and how he will fight to protect her. I thought if I had a demon, what kind of animal would he or she be. Would the demon have a similar personality as me, or would my demon be the opposite, but still be strong/ strong hearted and will protect me (a protector/fighter demon).
The character Lyra was a character that I've never come across in my other books. Instead of the main girl character (the heroine) being scared and weak in the begining. Lyra was a stubborn, kinda wild, smart girl and would not let anyone push her around. Living in a college for most of her life (she's about 11 or 12 years old), she never had any real parental guidance to teach her things. Lyra is the type of girl that would go off and find the answers herself. That is what she did when the Gobblers were taking children, and when they took her good friend Roger. She wasn't going to let that pass, as many of the adults in the college seemed to act. She traveled far with gypsies, rode on a polar pear and many other dangers and she did all this with the focus in mind to rescue her friend and the rest of the children and return them home. I give Lyra all the credit for having such courage to take on this adventure. Also the fact that she has to learn how to read the golden compass (when you ask a question, it gives you the truth), filled with symbols that she has to learn on her own.
Once we get to know more about what Dust is, we see why the adults, like Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are so desprate to know more about it and destroy it. In the story, Dust is sin, that is why Dust attracts more to adults than the children (children are too young to know or do anything sinful). There was a part in the story that was hard to get through. That part was when in the north, where the gobblers are keeping all the kidnapped children. They are doing experiments on the children and cutting them off from their demon. The detail of the pain that both the children and their demons were feeling, was vert visual in my mind. Then the sadness of once they are cut off from their demon, the children die and the demon vanishes.
I listened to this book on audio book and I really enjoyed how they read the story. Instead of one narrator changing his voice for the characters. This audio book had many different people to read the roles of the characters. There was a young girl doing the voice of Lyra, an older man for Lord Asriel, a kind, sneaky voice for Mrs. Coulter, etc. It was like if I went back in time and I was listening to a radio show, listening to these different actors read off their lines. It made the book even more enjoyable to listen and follow along to. It was so much better than their movie adpatation. It's like what everyone says when a book is being made into a movie "the books are better than the movie."
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