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Far too many characters, every last one of them entirely forgettable, take part in this slow-moving, disjointed, uninteresting plot. It’s hard to believe we waited 10+ years for The Book of Dust, and this is what we got.

This is absolutely not the master storyteller I discovered with His Dark Materials. Back then Pullman actually had a story to tell. The Book of Dust is just a conduit for his hatred of religion.