Great little read on a cozy rainy day! It was fun to see Lyra on another exciting adventure, a little older now. I also really liked the bits scattered through the book of what I call demifiction—nonfiction belonging to a fictional world—as well as the snippets and vignettes at the end. Any more of Lyra and Will is good! I really hope one of the other Pullman books on my list has a follow-up to this story. I want to know more about the birds.