By Philip "Dark" Pullman. Given to me, or acquired by me, at Mother's at Christmas. Lightweight, but fun. An offshoot, providing Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnison's backstory. Finished in Rouen.
Lee is the laconic hero, better with guns and thinking than you'd guess from his exterior. Iorek and he do a thing people never do in books but it is excellent: IB says his name, and LS subtly mispronounces it, as you'd expect, instead of just getting an unfamiliar name right.
I could do without the capitalism-is-evil schtick, but then again PS's theology in HDMI was pretty ropey if you looked closely, which you weren't supposed to.
Getting a ton of polar bear into a balloon seems implausible.
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