the standout Golden Compass is definitely the best of the trilogy there's not really much disputing that it has the best world building character development concise well packed narrative plot pacing just really everything their works doing much better degree than a bit of the confusion and overall Kay gas that does infest the next two books
Daniel Greene 633K subscribers · Nov 8, 2019
His Dark Materials - Series Review
the second and third book lose quite a bit of that wonder and the messaging and speeches become much more direct here is my opinion kind of becomes the overall tone of the story once again it's not to the utter and complete detriment of the series

