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  <title><![CDATA[The Shadow in the North (Sally Lockhart Trilogy, Book 2)]]></title>
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  <default-description>Six years after solving the mysteries surrounding the death of her  father (in &lt;I&gt;The Ruby in the  Smoke&lt;/I&gt;), Sally Lockhart has set up her own consulting business. But her  photographer friend, Fred Garland, has a habit of drawing her into his private  detective work owing to her skill in both finances and firearms. When one of  Sally's clients loses a large sum of money invested in a shipping firm and Fred  encounters a conjurer on the lam from underworld thugs, the two begin to find  links in these apparently disparate cases. &lt;p&gt;  Exquisitely written and packed with a wonderfully diverse, often terrifying cast  of characters and dark twists and turns of plot, the second installment of the  Sally Lockhart trilogy--an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, a &lt;I&gt;Booklist&lt;/I&gt;  Editors' Choice, and a nominee for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best  Mystery--is entirely impossible to put down. Make sure book 3, &lt;I&gt;The Tiger in the Well&lt;/I&gt;, is close  at hand as you near the end of this one. (Ages 12 and older) &lt;I&gt;--Emilie  Coulter&lt;/I&gt;</default-description>
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  <read_at>Sun Dec 07 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[book on CD: Anton Lesser is a delightful reader! ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 25 15:04:54 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was really good. It was even better then the first. Weird, right? The first book is almost always the best, but this one it really better. The mystery is more complicated, and more &quot;on the edge of your seat.&quot; There's close to death and death, the bad guy is way more threating, ev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46367797">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The Shadow of the North has a lot going on, including runaway magicians, false mediums, and steampunk weapons of mass destruction. But the true heart of this story does not lie in its intricate and sometimes improbable plot. It's about love. Not that mushy, obsessive stuff so many YA novels devote t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39745361">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 31 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay...this was a great little read.  These books are all plot driven, but they're really interesting and have some lovable (&amp; despisable) characters.  I still think its interesting that these are for young readers b/c the evil people are pretty dang mean, but maybe that's less complicated than nice...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44588479">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I didn't realize this was the second book in the series until about half way through, but I kept on going with it since I seemed able to figure most things out that I missed in the first book.  The story is so incredibly woven, with the characters being given as much attention as the unfolding myste...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39932809">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Better and better!  Pullman's writing just gets better!  He's snappy and exacting in his characters.  Quirky and ethical, his characters poke holes in systems of power.  For example, he excoriates the church - most ones it seems - in deft little passages such as this one from <em>The Shadow in the North...</em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59276736">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="25900123">
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    <body><![CDATA[I really had some problems with this book.  I thought a lot of the subject matter was inappropriate for children or young adults.  Sally Lockhart, the heroine, was smart and plucky and extremely lucky.  She was able to handle the demands of an unexpected pregnancy when she wasn't married.  Most teen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25900123">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved it. So, so, so much. I guess I once said it, by why not mention it twice? This is one of the best series I've ever had the fortune to read. Really. I already loved <em>The Ruby In The Smoke</em> but this one even beat it! I know, there are still two books to come, but I just had to state this.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54231303">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Oddly, I actually prefered this book to the first one which is unusual in a series. I liked the fact that the characters have matured in this one and we learn more about them especially Jim- who i smy favourite charatcer. Although this book is perhaps more dark than the first there were also moments...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59904717">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The ending sucks. Period.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed this sequel to the first Sally Lockhart book, although Sally hasn't improved much as a character.  She is now more headstrong and independent, but to the point of destroying all of her meaningful relationships and risking her own life.  She redeems herself toward the end of the book but en...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77060191">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From my blog, originally posted last year after watching the BBC film adaptation.<br/><br/>-------------------------------<br/><br/>The Shadow in the North was the first book I read with a sex scene. (It was entirely PG, of course, but I was shocked nonetheless.) The Shadow in the North was the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40912221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lo que más me gusta de lo que escribe Philip Pullman es lo que logra condensar en sus relatos. Todo lo importante, todo lo interesante. Sus protagonistas son chicas, heroínas atractivas, fuertes e inteligentes que no dejan de ser chicas que se enamoran y necesitan de un compañero, de un igual. Lo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1768069">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Yes, yes, and again yes. This is what I want from Pullman; fast-paced, intense, without a lot of extraneous philosophical claptrap, yet somehow still deep. And women who can actually do for themselves. It doesn’t match <em>Ruby in the Smoke</em> for the sheer reach into your psyche and mess around with it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/62390260">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 29 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Book two in the Sally Lockhart trilogy.<br/><br/>Six years have passed since Sally solved the mystery of her father's murder.  She is now a financial consultant in business for herself and remains fiercely independent.  The photography studio is now thriving and known as Garland and Lockhart, than...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12301287">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The year is 1878, and Sally Lockhart is working as a financial consultant, as well as being the partner in the photographic business with Frederick Garland. All is well, until a client comes to Sally with a problem: she just lost 3000 pounds, her life savings, because Sally gave her a bum stock tip....<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11416972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second Sally Lockhart adventure and, as with the first, it's still tougher and more morally complex than I'd expect children's (or even &quot;Young Adult&quot;'s) fiction to be. The heroine is an appealing proto-feminist and the setting offers plenty of scope for both thrilling adventure and his...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41165978">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[ I've never read anything by Pullman other than &quot;his dark materials,&quot; which I thought were brilliant.  This isn't of that calibre, but it is an entertaining mystery/crime drama with some otherworldly elements.  Unfortunately, it looks like I started with the second of the series.  Time to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52506773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I chose this book because the dramatization is going to be on Masterpiece Mystery tonight and I wanted to be prepared.  They left a lot out of the Ruby in the Smoke last week!  This is a darker book than the Ruby in the Smoke.  It follows the same characters as the first, but six years later.  Sally...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33542480">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A surprisingly decent read - very similar to Caleb Carr's books in that it's a well-paced historical mystery/adventure.  Carr throws in more historical detail, but Pullman relates well the sense of struggle faced by a single intelligent woman who owns her own investment firm in 19th century London. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43655778">more...</a>]]></body>
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