Serpentine

80 pages

English language

Published April 7, 2020 by Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-241-47524-9
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A short but sweet novella, Serpentine follows Lyra and Pan in the time between the original trilogy and the sequel trilogy. Reading this after The Secret Commonwealth is almost painful, because it bridges the gap between Lyra’s naïveté from the end of the original trilogy and the painful, cavernous void that characterizes her relationship with Pan in the Book of Dust series. In this novella, we see Lyra and Pan travel back to the North and meet with a certain returning character to ask a most pressing question. I won’t say much more, but obviously it is relevant to what I have described here, and definitely relates to what follows in the Book of Dust.

Though small, Pullman doesn’t pull his punches, and there are wonderful illustrations throughout that add a cozy feeling to the story. Despite its brevity, the reader still confronts serious questions—for example, is it truly possible …

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