The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust #2) by Philip Pullman

Goodreads Summary:
It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life-changing journey. It is seven years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence. Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child . . .The second volume of Sir Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her daemon Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous factions of a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat and a mission to save a baby from the flood, now a man with a strong sense of duty and a desire to do what is right. Theirs is a world at once familiar and extraordinary, and they must travel far beyond the edges of Oxford, across Europe and into Asia, in search for what is lost - a city haunted by daemons, a secret at the heart of a desert, and the mystery of the elusive Dust.

My Review:
I loved Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, was VERY disappointed with the terrible 2007 movie starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig, and anxiously anticipated The Book of Dust series. 

This is one of my favorite pics from Book Expo 2017.

I read La Belle Sauvage (The Book of Dust #1) in a single day but was a bit let down because Lyra is a baby and the entire book is about Malcom Polstead 🙄. When I read the summary for The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust #2)I was so excited because Lyra is at college! I really loved this book and was so glad that it was over 600 pages because I didn't want to leave the world of alethiometers, daemons, and the search for Dust! My heart is breaking for Lyra and Pan! Are you reading this series? Have you read the His Dark Materials trilogy? Are you watching His Dark Materials on HBO?