Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy has been called the atheistic counterpart to The Chronicles of Narnia, and the successor to The Lord of the Rings.
Pullman takes us to a world in which people’s souls walk along side them as shape-shifting animals, where witches and armored bears roam distant lands, and where the Church rules supreme.
His Dark Materials follows the adventures of Lyra Belacqua, daughter of a woman of unspeakable cruelty and deceit, and of a powerful man who will undertake the most ambitious project in the history of the universe. And yet it is Lyra upon whom everything will ultimately depend…