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The Quiet Hour · Calloway
Opening book
His Dark Materials
The Secret Commonwealth
Philip Pullman
2019
New York Times bestsellerChildren's fictionYoung adult fiction, action & adventure, survival storiesYoung adult fiction, fantasy, epicBelacqua, lyra (fictitious character), fiction
About this book
**LYRA SILVERTONGUE** thought her adventuring days were long over. Now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia's College, she could almost begin to doubt that she'd once traveled to the world of the dead were it not for the painful separation from her daemon, Pantalaimon. But intrigue is swirling around Lyra once more. Pantalaimon witnesses a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry shocking echoes of their past. They learn of a city haunted by daemons, and of a desert rose sa…
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Quiet, observational, and lightly philosophical — the prose is the point. Best for readers who already enjoy literary fiction and aren't reading for plot. Frustrates anyone expecting clear stakes.
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