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The subtle knife book review6/12/2023 ![]() Along the way they come into possession of the Subtle Knife, an implement so finely made that it can cut through any substance, including air itself, allowing the knife-bearer to create windows between different worlds. The two build a respectful friendship and, when the alethiometer advises Lyra to tie her fate to Will’s, she forsakes her own quest in order to help Will find his absent father. Here Will meets Lyra, who arrived in Cittágazze via the window that her uncle, Lord Asriel, created at the end of Northern Lights. ![]() When Will accidently kills an intruder to his home he goes on the run and, slipping through a window in mid-air, arrives in the barren world of Cittágazze, a world infested with Spectres (ghostly apparitions that eat adult’s souls), where gangs of feral youths roam the deserted cities surviving however they can. Here one is introduced to Will, a young boy who, in the absence of his father, is left to look after his troubled mother alone, in a world very much like our own. The Subtle Knife (1997) is the second novel in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. ![]()
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