His Dark Materials - Northern Lights

Philip Pullman's trilogy "His Dark Materials" is much in the line with Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and J.K Rowling's Harry Potter series. It is a magical and fantastic saga and an extremely well written product of a superb and complex imagination. It is meant to be either loved or hated. I loved it.

In this first enthralling book, Northern Lights, the reader is introduced to a world very similar to our own (but different) and to some of the main characters in the trilogy: the child Lyra, the powerful Lord Asriel and the beautiful and dangerous Mrs. Coulter.

Synopsis

In this first part of the "Dark Materials" trilogy, Lyra's friend Roger disappears. She and her daemon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him. Their quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North where a team of scientists are conducting unspeakably horrible experiments.