Alistair’s Reviews > The Subtle Knife > Status Update

Hmm. My twelve-year-old is going to be the new Eve? STRANGER DANGER. GET HER AWAY FROM THESE PEOPLE!

Not how Mrs. Coulter reacts, obviously. She goes to try to kill her daughter. I just know that if someone said this about my niece, my first reaction would be to subdue the nutjob and then call the police.

“And is the boy with her? The boy with a knife?” Well, when you put it like that, that does sound like a bad situation for your twelve-year-old daughter to be in. Not Mrs. Coulter’s intention, I know, but I had to stop to laugh at that.

It just occurred to me: If Azriel is The Bad Guy, which he seems to be given everything that eats humans is siding with him, does that mean The Authority and the Church are the Good Guys?!?!? Are you kidding me?!?

Oh good. Angels are coming to pay pilgrimage to a sleeping Lyra (and Will?) All subtlety has left the story, folks.

“Matter and spirit are one.” Don’t do this to me, man.

Ok, now that the titular knife is in play, things are slightly more interesting. But only slightly. I still don't care for Will.

I am 5000% done with our world being in this. If I wanted Christian fantasy, I'd read C.S. Lewis. The spiritual aspect took me a little aback during The Golden Compass, but it was less obtrusive than in this book.

I know I'm only annoying myself at this point. You can't even get manslaughter out of this. The fact that the alethiometer calls him a murderer is downright stupid. I need an adult to explain to this child that he did not murder anyone because murder requires intent to kill. Will threw himself at an intruder in self defense and then the intruder fell over a cat and down the stairs.