**Spoilers for His Dark Materials trilogy and The Book of Dust trilogy below** A lot happens in this book, and nothing happens. Which was predictable. The second book in the His Dark Materials trilogy is also a filler, but at least then they get the stupid knife. A Secret Commonwealth feels like a million pages of setting up, introducing us to characters that will probably be important, moving them to where the next war is going to break, explaining their motivations. It’s basically a very […]