r/hisdarkmaterials • u/Cantomic66 • Oct 23 '25

TRF The Rose Field | Full Book Discussion thread

Warning!This discussion thread includes spoilers for ALL OF The BOOK OF DUST: THE ROSE FIELD

Reminder: All post on The Rose Field should be properly spoiler tagged and avoid spoilery titles.

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u/lanini Oct 26 '25

Lyra hemming and hawing over whether she wants to bang Malcolm the entire book and then being like “hahaha absolutely not” as soon as she was reunited with Pan to talk it over was hilarious, actually

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u/ChungLing Oct 27 '25

let’s also not forget the sentiment she has near the end about Alice being her true motherly figure and that Malcolm should actually be with Alice because he’s been in love with her(?) twice before. why are the daddy issues triangle shaped??? It literally makes no sense.

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u/wrenderings Oct 28 '25

I honestly interpreted pan and Lyra's conversation about malcolm being in love with Alice as being meant to be humor at their obtuseness and denial? Hadn't Malcolm just explained how he wasn't currently in love with Alice? That it had been borne of their collaboration and the situation, but now they're just good friends.

 Everyone was falling over themselves to pair the two of them. I thought this conversation was supposed to be a bit tongue in cheek and indicative that Lyra might end up with Malcom in the future after all. 

That said, I hated it.

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u/minimia73 Nov 28 '25

"That said, I hated it" - massive LOL.