I liked the Sally Lockhart books quite a lot* but yeah, Pullman doesn't pull his punches. Have you read the His Dark Materials series?
* Though IIRC one of them - the second one, maybe? - had somewhat dodgy racial issues in places. And then there was the one with the evil monkey. Phillip Pullman, what is your problem with monkeys? What did they ever do to you?
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Date: 2009-01-21 09:29 pm (UTC)* Though IIRC one of them - the second one, maybe? - had somewhat dodgy racial issues in places. And then there was the one with the evil monkey. Phillip Pullman, what is your problem with monkeys? What did they ever do to you?