29d • Woman Crush Wednesday
WOMAN CRUSH WEDNESDAY
Hark, Adventurers - another WCW is upon us!
For this one, I'll go back in time to what I think was my first fantasy-genre crush - more one of admiration, since I was only 10 years old. And that was on:
LYRA BELACQUA, aka LYRA SILVERTONGUE from Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy.
Lyra is a young girl who lives at Jordan College in an alternate version of Oxford when we first meet her. In Lyra's world, every human has a companion - called a daemon - that takes on an animal form. Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon fall into adventure fairly quickly when she inadvertently saves her uncle and comes into possession of an Alethiometer - a device which can tell truths about anything, but only to those gifted enough to read it.
The original trilogy, beginning with The Golden Compass, was the first fantasy series I read and it still holds up as an adult. Pullman also revisited the world with three new books, which just wrapped up last year. The ending wasn't super amazing but I was happy with it. It's also worth noting there was a TV adaptation starring Dafne Keen which was incredible.
Happy WCW, Lyra!
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WOMAN CRUSH WEDNESDAY
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