“The Amber Spyglass” is the final part of “His Dark Materials” trilogy by Philip Pullman. I really hoped that this book would be better than the previous two, but the hope was in vain. The trilogy is basically a fairy tale about children, but a very violent one. I might have enjoyed it when I was a teenager, but now I was mostly bored. All the characters are incredibly flat, especially the women: female characters created by a male author are a total, disappointing cliché. Even the main protagonist, Lyra, who was so bold and assertive in “Northern Lights”, now compares herself to Will and cannot make a single decision without his approval. Will, by the way, was making me sick because of his rudeness and disrespect for other characters. The protagonists always emerge unscathed from all dangers. The antagonists die at the perfect moment or become Lyra's allies after a couple of pleasant words. How convenient! You don't even have to worry about anyone: deus ex machina and plot holes solve all problems (except romantic ones, of course). Last but not least, Pullman tried to criticize religion and received many complaints for it. However, what is Dust, if not a god? What is the Republic of Heaven if not the Garden of Eden? The angels and the world of the dead prove to us that Pullman simply created his own religion based on the ideas of others. To sum up, the ending of a promising trilogy was, in my opinion, very weak and unsatisfactory. The potential of the brilliant idea was not fulfilled.