La Belle Sauvage vs The Subtle Knife: Which Should You Read?

La Belle Sauvage Philip Pullman · 2017 ★★★★☆ 4.2 472 pages · ≈ 8 h 44 m · Light

Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. And so perhaps it was inevitable that he would become a spy.... Malcolm's father runs an inn called the Trout, on the banks of…

The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman · 1997 ★★★★☆ 4.2 367 pages · ≈ 6 h 48 m · Moderate

“Will tugged at his mother's hand and said, "Come on, come on..." But his mother hung back.”

As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife. She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer…