Thinking about how a young mind not even of 10 years would interpret all of that criticism to my religion I think I would have been kind of confused about it. The reason why I didn't finish it was because my mother didn't let me.Īt the time I didn't understand why, it wasn't until years later when I read the whole trilogy that I understood her decision. Ok, so I first read this when I was like 9 years old, and I only read the first book I never finished it, but I remember liking it a lot. There's just so much going on and it gets very disturbing especially with the separation of childrens souls which results in death. Maybe 13 if your child is particularly interested and is on the upper average/advanced intelligence. Plus there's some very sexual tension in the book series as I mentioned before which is why I think that you should do no younger than 14. It could take a few reads through all 3 books to actually get it because I had to read them twice to pick up the whole thing. The book is overly detailed in places you don't want such as the violence, but it's under detailed in explaining the point of series clearly. The narrative has a constant theme of questioning everything and defying authority and a kid needs to be old enough to grasp the concept of being able to make sound questioning before reading this and also old enough to know that lying is not a talent to be praised. Good guys have things like rabbits and pine Martin's. Bad guys daemons tend to be things like bugs, reptiles, wolves, and such. A person's soul in the books exists as an animal companion called a daemon and it can change while a kid is a kid but adults animal daemons are fixed on one type of animal which is tied to whether they are good or bad.
There is violence and scary themes of having your soul ripped from you. There's also alot of sexual tension in the later books as Lyra approaches puberty. But the bad morals are that it glorifies lying as a good thing and rewards Lyra by getting out of tight spots by lying. The good morals is that Lyra is a strong, brave, loyal friend who stands up for what needs to be done even though it puts her life in danger. The books have both good morals and bad morals.
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