The Golden Compass

I liked a lot of the over-arching themes of this, but I gotta say that seeing it from Lyra's POV was great in that it sounded like her, and horrible in that I wanted more knowledge in the way this world worked.

And I listened to it via audiobook, so I may have missed it, but I never did find out about the Master's attempted poison of the dad. I mean, I get it by the end, but it was a thing that stuck in my mind the entire book, and never really got talked about again. I'm guessing the master was trying to poison him because of his intention to kill a child. I wanted more, I guess, is what I'm saying.