![]() A daemon completes a human, so to see a human without one is akin to seeing someone without a head, or other essential body part. It’s natural, in this world, that every human has a daemon, a being in the form of an animal that’s an outward expression of the human’s inner self. In this book, the story is set in a world that mirrors our own and is centered on Lyra Belacqua, a brave golden-haired girl who’s supposedly an orphan, which is why she’s raised among the Scholars of Jordan College (which I thought of as the equivalent of Oxford) - the only girl there as women are not often Scholars. The Golden Compass is the first novel in a young-adult fantasy series. Reading it in 2023 was the best time to pick it up. I’d attempted it shortly after graduating college, but didn’t feel drawn to the story and had difficulty with the concept of daemons, so I gave up on the book but vowed to return to it when I felt more receptive to the story. ![]() The Golden Compass is a book I’ve wanted to read for over 10 years now, but I kept putting it off. ![]()
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