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The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three | Philip Pullman

Complete!
I'm going to have to reread the second trilogy over to really get it. But I'm very happy with love interest for Lyra, let's leave it at that

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TrishB

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three | Philip Pullman

Thirty years after reading the first, the last one. Going in….last ones are scary, what if I don‘t like it, what if I don‘t like the ending 🤞🏻 🤞🏻

squirrelbrain Fingers crossed you‘ll love it! 🤞 1w

Ruthiella 🤞🤞🤞 1w

tina_b.ooks I still have the first one on my reading list. What did you think of it? 1w

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Oryx Fingers crossed 1w

Suet624 Good luck! 1w

TrishB @tina_b.ooks I love the whole series, you have to start with Northern Lights - which is the beginning of the whole series. Is it that one? 1w

tina_b.ooks @TrishB I read Northern Lights. I actually have the collection of His Dark Materials and then also the first volume of Book of Dust, but I never continued. 6d

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Balibee146

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three | Philip Pullman

Pausing all my other reads now that this has arrived 😁

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emz711

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three | Philip Pullman

Sorry everyone else! The end to my childhood epic fantasy has arrived!

AnnCrystal
🤩💝📚💝📚💝. 2w

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emz711

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three | Philip Pullman

Ahhhh!
@AnnCrystal

AnnCrystal Sweet News for Book Mail 👏🏼🥳👍🏼📚💝💝💝. 2w

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emz711

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three | Philip Pullman

Unacceptable! Why don't I pay for shipping!!!

AnnCrystal Drove me nuts, one of the reasons I gave up on mail ordering again... although, fun when they actually do arrive 😜📚💝. 3w

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emz711

The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three | Philip Pullman

2 more weeks! I can't wait!
I'm also scared it's going to be devastating

BookBr SAMEEEEE 1mo

emz711 @BookBr omg thank you! Did you preorder? 1mo

BookBr @emz711 I didn‘t but now I wish I had… 1mo

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Andarna

The Midnight Library | Matt Haig

Love the concept and story but there is just something that is not keeping me as engaged as I would like. Pacing? Writing style? Just trying to figure it out.

#matthaig #fiction #parallelworlds

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Robotswithpersonality

The Untold Story | Genevieve Cogman

so-so

Well, I wish I was coming to the end of this series with a more pronounced thought than 'thank goodness that's over'. The premise, which this book seems to be partly justifying the departure from the early idea to the later watering down, is appealing, the world-building for the most part, and a number of the characters. There are several reasons I stayed invested. 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? Unfortunately, when Cogman made the decision to stop teasing a love triangle, and went with Irene and Kai, it was greatly at Vale's expense, he faded out of the stories more as the series went on. Not only was I more invested in his relationship with Irene than Kai's, I felt seriously cheated out of the, admittedly still rare in main stream publishing but to me achingly well-established, possibilities of a throuple! 9mo

Robotswithpersonality 3/? And yeah, making it less about book heists and alternate world exploration and more about fae v. dragons and Librarians as diplomats was also not the direction I would have chosen. Cogman, depending on your perspective, is either very good or very bad at writing intensely frustrating interpersonal exchanges, lengthy, or perhaps more accurately, frequent exchanges. As with thrillers, I don't find such tension compelling, I find it pisses me off 9mo

Robotswithpersonality 4/? and encourages me to skim. I enjoyed the bit of what was said about the true purpose of libraries and librarians, even if it's well worn territory, but I feel like the founders story line, being basically fully introduced and concluded only in the last book, felt rushed, and I felt cheated out of the exploration of that lore as a result. Likewise, Alberich's end? A bit anti-climactic. 9mo

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Robotswithpersonality 5/? I appreciate that Irene still understands the parents that raised her as her true parents, rather than being too spun or invested in the implications of her 'true' parentage, but it just felt weirder and weirder, the more the gap between her biological and adoptive parents was drawn, that we've heard so little about the people who actually raised her - I'm trying to remember, in eight books, did we even meet them? (edited) 9mo

Robotswithpersonality 6/? Not the point, I suppose, but there could have been an emotional depth to involving the parental figures more. Likewise, tricky to determine who gets a bigger role among the supporting cast of an eight book series, but I do wish I'd seen more of certain characters, and while I guess there's some literary symmetry in Bradamant's involvement at this stage when she was the earlier foe, at this point in the series, I just didn't care as much. 9mo

Robotswithpersonality 7/7 Lot of 'underutiilized character' feelings. I can see why this series would work for people with certain preferences in fantasy and mystery/thrillers, I guess I made the mistake of falling early for the protagonists and the premise, and wanted to see where it went even if it wasn't matching up well with my preferences. Not a shock, then, I guess, that the end didn't satisfy. 🤷🏼‍♂️
⚠️forced pregnancy 9mo

shanaqui Yesss I really wish Cogman had explored them being a throuple. At times it seemed like it was going there! 9mo

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