The world they create in this book is amazing, and sort of a new outlook. You still get the whimsical overlay, but the way it's done it's not too much. The book starts off with the main character, a younger girl named Lyra Belacqua, her and her magic creature bonded to her, which in this series they call daemons. You seem to be born with one, and it's your companion for life, and when your an innocent child, it can still shape shift. Then it shifts to her uncle coming to town, Lord Asriel. This is when Lyra becomes curious about the conversation topic "Dust".
She wants to go up North with her uncle, whom is alway traveling. But as usual he refuses, because it would be too dangerous. Lyra goes back to her friends, and one in particular Roger Parslow, who lives close to the college that Lyra lives in. This is where the conversation of whispers going around town that there is children being stolen by a group called "The Gobbler's". The Gobbler's still Roger, and this is when our adventure really starts, because Lyra feels that she has to save him, cause no one else will.
She then comes upon the cynical Mrs. Coulter who brings Lyra to London with her. Before Lyra leaves her master hands her an alethiometer, which would be the "golden compass" and tells her she must show it to no one, especially Mrs. Coulter. then she goes off on this adventure and makes alliances and gets herself caught eventually. Then she finds Roger at this place and escapes with him. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series.
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