This book was sadly so bad. I love the first trilogy! Pulllman really wrote a good story in them. Full of fantasy and wonders letting us bond with the characters that I'm now not liking that much anymore. At the beginning I thought it was funny how Lyra and Pantalaimon sort of changed characters between each other, but to see them so much torn apart was too much. And I also think it's very unrealistic. They had like 8 years and never talked about what happened when they were apart. I can't believe it. I could talk about so many things I didn't liked in this book. One of the worst parts was that Malcom is in love with Lyra. There are 11 years between them! He changed her diapers, it's just too weird >.<! I liked Malcom in La belle sauvage, now not so much. And then the almost rape scene of Lyra. I really can't stand such things. The scene itself was written in a good way, but after that Lyra just behaved like nothing happened. She followed strangers even men and she slept on the street when her underwear was torn apart without her genitals freezing to death. There are still some good parts, which are very interesting, but sometimes they just weren't explained enough. Also for me there were to many point of views. Felt like every ten pages it was someone else. I will wait and read the next book, but it has to be very very good, to justify this one. :(