I am most of the way through this book (listened to as a wonderful audiobook by Michael Sheen), but was distracted by other fannishness and haven't quite finished it yet. I am annoyed by the upcoming romance--seriously, first you see him taking care of her as a baby and then he's her teacher in her teens, and then they get together?? /o\ /o\ I actually found the ideas about mental health isses as expressed through conflicts between a human and their daemon to be pretty interesting, but it's also frustrating how it changed Lyra's character.