So this weekend, I read the rest of the Golden Compass. The concept behind of it was cool, apparently people live with these shape shifting animal beings called deamons whose lives are linked to their owners, so if they die, their owners die and vice versa. It's about a girl named lyra who is given a pocket watch by his uncle that can answer any question. She escapes an evil women named Mrs Coulter with Gyptians that head toward the north and befriends a polar bear wearing armor to help free children from experimentation.

I have to say this is definitely different that your typical fantasy story, it takes place in a world similar to ours, but yet still has a fictional feel to it. I'd recommend if to people who want to read a fantasy book with an imaginative world to it.