This book was written by Philip Pullman, the story is set in Victorian London. It talk about the life of a character called Sally Lockart. Her father drowns at sea and she receives a strange letter sent by an unknowned person. Sally then finds the person that sent the letter, but he is traped by an evil women who is trying to get information out of him. The evil women is after a giant ruby worth thousand and thousand of pounds. So Sally is determined to find it before her.
I thought his book was a great book because it has a mixture of genres. It has a bit of horror, adventure and detective. It has alot of different characters and Sally is a very insteresting character because she's nothing that you expected her to be. It had a very clever ending you would of never expected that and you never know what is going to happen next. Its one of thoses books that you never want to put down because it just gets better and better.
My favourite character was the devil women because for Victorian london she has so much athourity and is so unbeleivably cruel and you would never have thought of something so mean to do to somebody. She is very interesting because she strated of pretty but then became ugly because of all of her evil thoughts. She is a very deternmind person and allways make sure she gets her way.
I would give this book 5 star rating because you allways want to read more and has the most amazing plot. It is totally amazing there are no words to describe it.
I STRONGLY RECOMEND IT!!!!
