[sionnsar]

Thank you for this! I don't know if the Rev. Dr. Williams has read the rest or not, but your comment "was quite clever in bringing in innocent readers" gave me pause in regards to subsequent books. Does this one "merely" sink a hook?

(I do not know what the "General Oblation Board" is: a Harry Potter reference?)

[Peanut Gallery]

The GOB is part of The Golden Compass, actually. The main character, Lyra, knows it as the “Gobblers” who steal children by luring them in on their (the child’s) own volition.

Hook, line, and sinker. They never know what hits them until it’s too late.