The Golden Compass & The Subtle Knife Reviews

 So I know this trilogy came out like a million years ago and I’m just way behind, but here we go. 

I listened to the audiobooks for the first two books in the His Dark Materials trilogy. (I have a hold on the last one at my library). 

A lot of people love these books. But honestly, I wasn’t so impressed with the first one. I liked it. It was good. But it wasn’t as super awesome as people make it seem. To me, at least.

But I loved the second one! I’m really not sure why, but I thought the second one was SO much more interesting than the first one. And now I am so excited to read the last one. 

The Golden Compass: 3 stars

The Subtle Knife: 4 stars

Have you read this trilogy? What did you think?

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