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Summary: Tying the knot!
Review: Philip Pullman finishes the Sally Lockhart trilogy with this incredible epic, "The Tiger in the Well." Being an avid fan of Pullman and his works, I anticipated a good read. However, as I started out this novel, I lost interest, mainly because Frederick was no longer an existent character. [This happened to me in "The Golden Compass" as well, before the story picked up the pace--I loved it after that.] So, it took two times to get through the story, but when I got into it, I was dying to flip to the end to see who was behind the horrible deeds which had ruined Sally's life and career. I resisted the urge and read the book as is, and I absolutely loved the ending. It was beyond awesome. Pullman knows exactly how to write a story and how to end it on an incredible note.
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Summary: Wonderful Book!
Review: Philip Pullman is a fantastic author. Each book is different and intriguing, yet it some how always ties together.I have read many wonderful books. Some include such titles as The Phantom of the Opera (by Gaston Leroux), Tuck Everlasting (by Natalie Babbit), Holes (by Louis Sachar?), and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (by J. K. Rowling). Although those were all great books by equally great authors Philip Pullman's books have got to be my all time favorite. Every book seems to lead up to everything, but the everything is so... unexpected.
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Summary: The third in the Sally Lockhart trilogy is a masterpiece.
Review: Philip Pullman's wonderful and gripping fantasy books, "The Golden Compass" and "The Subtle Knife" made me want to read more of his work. This led me to the Sally Lockhart books, all of which I enjoyed. Although, with "The Tiger in the Well", Pullman tops himself. The exploration of Sally's character in a desperate situation (and the vivid reconstruction of the historical period she inhabits) makes this a modern masterpiece. Wow, what a book!
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Summary: Simply brilliant, but not always kind
Review: Pullman is a brilliant writer and one of my very favorites, with this trilogy in particular which I enjoyed immensely. The first book [Ruby in the Smoke] drew me in with its intriguing mystery and (don't ask me where this comes from, but I felt it) jubilant spirit. After such a beginning I looked forward to the Shadow in the North (now my favorite of the trilogy). This one tore my heart out and that's all I will say. I scrambled through the tiger in the well as they seemed to gain brilliance as the trilogy progressed. This one (and some, okay most, will say I get a little too involved in the stories I read) brought be from a state of utter helplessness to firey rage and all the way back to the beginning with an unsurmountable joy that everything is upsidedown and thats the way we like it. I refuse tell someone I don't know to read a book, because like people, every story has a personality and very rarely does everyone get along. I will say, that if my previouse ramblings have intrigued you do go ahead and read these books...you've nothing to lose.
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Summary: One of the best trilogys ever
Review: Sometimes as a trilogy goes along, the 2nd book will be worse than the 1st and then the 3rd will be worse than both. But this is the exact opposite! These books will be some of the best you ever read! And if you disagree then tell me what is better;)
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Summary: Agonizingly Exciting
Review: The mystery here is not so much why everything is conspiring to destroy Sally Lockhart -- if you have read the first two books you can readily unravel the who and why. The question is, how can she combat the powers that have been assembled against her? As other reviewers have mentioned: it is tough going as this book opens. One calamity after another falls upon Sally, and just when you think there is no hope left for her -- that surely she is done for this time -- she finds a still more terrifyingly precarious position just out of reach of her tormentor. But as each recourse is cut off, as each simple minded, foolish, or outmaneuvered person who should be helping her is instead turned against her, I groaned and slammed the book down. Only to pick it right up again, of course.Perhaps most interesting, is that in this culmination of the Sally Lockhart books, there are a number of accumulated thematic links into the Golden Compass books: you can see that Pullman's rich imagination is not unlimited, and that some of his best ideas are found throughout his work.
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Summary: Not as good as the first and second
Review: The Shadow in the North was so beautiful and gut-wrenching that anyone would be hard-pressed to follow it, but Philip Pullman tries his best and manages fairly well. Sally is now 24 and the mother of a little girl. Her fairly tranquil life is disrupted when a stranger sues for custody of her daughter, claiming that he married Sally three years ago and fathered her child. Lots of suspense ensues as Sally does everything humanly possible to keep her daughter safe and to find out why this man wants to destroy her. As usual with Philip Pullman the characters and the plot are developed excellently. I particularly enjoyed seeing how Sally has grown into a strong and mature woman over the course of the three books. But I had some problems with the overt social commentary and the characters of Dan Goldberg and the Tzaddik. Goldberg was portrayed as essentially perfect and the Tzaddik as evil and bent on revenge, but that was the extent of their personalities. It's worth reading though, for the strong and always undaunted Sally Lockhart.(and for the short scenes with Jim at the end.)
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Summary: A thrilling conclusion to the Sally Lockhart trilogy!
Review: THE TIGER IN THE WELL is by far Sally's most exciting adventure! As usual, Phillip Pullman gets right to the point in bringing you action ... Sally Lockhart is now 25 years old and perfectly content. But when the "Process Server" arrives at her home one sunny afternoon with a message from a man called Mr. Parrish, who is suing her for the custody of her beloved daughter, Harriet, Sally's life suddenly goes downhill. She soon realizes that "someone hates her so much that he has devoted years to bring about her ruin." Indeed, this man's lie has so many proofs to back it up, Sally nearly believes she has forgotten an entire period of her life. But for the sake of her memory of Frederick Garland, her late fiancé, she protects herself and their daughter by escaping to London's East End, where she hides among the poor, depraved lower class. Meanwhile, a politician and journalist, Daniel Goldberg, is investigating a capitalist who is somehow managing to use the flow of Jewish immigration for his own personal gain. ...Want to know what happens - how the threads tie together? Read this book!
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Summary: Tiger In the Well: Wonderful book!!!!!
Review: The Tiger in The Well The Tiger in the Well is a gripping, fantasy about Sally Lockhart and her young girl Harriet.
Sally Lockhart unlike most Victorian women of her time was a successful businesswoman and loving mother.
But one lovely day while sitting in there garden Harriet, Sally, and all the inhabitants of the house are greeted by an seemingly ordinary man in a brown bowler hat and coat. He brings news of the most unusual, and unfortunate news. (Not to say surprising as well.) A man named Mr. Parrish, someone sally has never heard of, is claiming to be not only her husband, but Harriet's father as well!
Sally is very surprised, for her fiancé, and Harriet's father had died before Sally got married, or Harriet was born.
Sally then becomes involved in a desperate chase to find the truth. Is this the truth? Has she forgotten this large part of her life? Or is someone just trying to lure her into thinking that?
She is "proven" guilty in the courts, and goes into hiding to keep away from Mr. Parrish, and his thugs.
She meets many interesting people, and does many interesting things in her journey, but in the end it all comes down to one man. Known to people as many different things, and has been known to sally as two different men, but he is the key to it all. And his goal in life is to demolish Sally's entire world...
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Summary: The Tiger in the Well: Um... how do I rate this book 100 sta
Review: The Tiger in the Well The Tiger in the Well is an exciting and suspenseful book about a young Victorian lady called Sally Lockhart and her child Harriet. Sally Lockhart is a very successful businesswoman who owns a financial consultant agency but who is also a loving mother to her daughter Harriet. The story takes place in Victorian England in the late 1800's after the unexpected death of Harriet's father. Sally has just settled into her lovely house when un unexpected visitor shows up with some papers that claim that sally is married to someone who she has never herd of before. I think that the Tiger in the Well book defiantly deserves 5 stars because anyone could read it and love it anywhere between the ages of 10 and 1,000000000000000000000000etc... it also includes a ton of suspense in some places where it gets to the point when you have to put the book down and go do something else for a while, I mean there are points where you think that the main character will die!! One thing I have to make clear is be sure to read the first two books "the Ruby in the smoke" and "the Shadow in the North" before you read this one!!! This book was defiantly the BEST book that I have ever read!! So be sure to put this book on your must read NOW list!!! Don't just say that you will read it PLEASE read it now.
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