Lyra's Oxford reviewed by Amanda Craig, The Times
"...Lyra?s Oxford is quite perfect in its way ? gripping, funny, and infused with the vitality of a master-storyteller ? and yet it is also no more than an amuse-gueule, a canap?, a crumb offered to an audience starving for a proper Christmas dinner...."


I haven't read the book. But I wanted to know if the setting is after the battle and after she met Will or is it before that? And also the Third book did not quite finish! We still dont know about the Republic Of Heaven and that what was Lyra's destiney. At least I dont!