Willow Talks Books 77.8K subscribers · Feb 8, 2026

ONE book you could read FOREVER (according to readers)

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Mixed

It's a book that I really, really enjoyed, but have so many, well, just one really massive and important criticism of in that it is such aing white male savior hero complex projection of the author's savior power fantasy. It's all so transparent.

Loved

It is a book that does not patronize children. It's a book that introduces complex themes of religious hypocrisy and the poisons of doctrine and dogma. It does all of that in a way that is so respectful of the intelligence of the reader knowing that the people who read this book are going to be around the age of 12, 13, 14.

Disliked

I have not read the third book of dust, which came out recently because in the second book of Dust, Philip Pullman really grossed me out. I thought he had turned into a creepy old man, and that was emphasized by some of the writing and character choices in that book.