Northern Lights book review:

Not many people know about this book however most people have heard of the the film. The film is called The Golden Compass and to be fair it is a great film however when I found out it was meant to be a trilogy of films and there was a trilogy behind it then of course I had to read it. So about a month later me and my dad were going to London and we found a street which I have sadly forgotten the name of which had loads of book shops. Inside the shops we found so many books from fiction to non-fiction, action to adventure and even books about different coins around the world. I was in my own little personal heaven. Then we found in a small section near the window a book me and dad have been looking for for at least half a year. the 8th Series of Unfortunate Events book. I know I've been talking about this series so much but when I saw it in that book shop I was so happy. There was actually two copies of it and we hadn't found one where we live for half a year. Also we found the 2nd book in the His Dark Materials series (which is the Northern Lights series). Then we went in the shop next door and found the other two books in the series. I was over the moon in the space of half an hour I had found the missing book in a series of 13 books and found an entire series of a film I loved. Only I would go to London and not buy anything but books. Yes I bought some food however apart from that books, just books. Now back to the actual book.
   This book has such a better story line then the film. It's about a girl called Lyra that lives in Oxford at Jordan University and the Scholars and servants look after her. She was told that her parents died  in a accident and she sees her Uncle around once every couple of months. When one day she sneaks into a room where only the Scholars are allowed in. She founds out there is a thing called Dust that makes their Dæmons settle. Dæmons  are like our souls however in this book they come in a physical form. They can change into different animals till they reach a certain age where their Dæmons  settle and take the form of an animal that represents who the person is. She also finds out that her Uncle wants to go to the arctic where the armoured bears and witches are from. Witches have Dæmons  like humans however they can be much further away than humans can. So a witches Dæmons can be miles away from it's witch however a humans daemon can't be any further then a few meters. If your Dæmon gets too far you can feel physical pain. Near where Lyra lives children start to go missing and people are saying that it's people called the gobblers that are taking them. So Lyra joins the Egyptians ,who are people that live in river boats, to find the missing children. It may sound like I've revealed a lot however there is actually so much more I haven't talked about that still wouldn't tell you the entire story.
   I think my favourite has to be the main character, Lyra, she has no fear and always speaks up when she thinks something isn't right or if someone is not telling her something. Also, she's a real tomboy even if she lives in an University and goes to fancy dinners with the Scholars she still goes climbing on the roof with the kitchen servant Roger and under the University in the catacombs. However my second favourite is Iorek Byrnison. Iorek is an armoured bear that was recruited by the Egyptians to help find the missing children. He was told to look after Lyra because she has a special machine with her that can tell her the answer to any question. Nobody else can read this machine so the Egyptians need her to tell what they are walking into. This machine is called a alethiometer and she uses it by turn the three needles to different symbols around the outside of the machine then the fourth needle tell her the answer. Each symbol has many different meaning and unless you know all the meaning you can't read the answer.
   I loved this book so much and I would recommend it to anyone that I know. It's full of action, mystery and stranger forces.

Thanks for reading and I'll see you when I post next.

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