#127 in Adventure
The Rose Field
- 672
- Pages
- about 12 h
- Reading time
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Our view
“The Rose Field” brings Lyra Silvertongue’s story to its close in a long, wide-ranging quest that picks up directly after “The Secret Commonwealth”. At over six hundred and seventy pages, it is a substantial last volume for “The Book of Dust”. Some readers feel it leaves too many threads loose and too many questions unanswered for a finale. It is for those who have followed Lyra this far.
The view of the BookRank editors, written from readers’ ratings and comments. It does not affect the score or the book’s place in a ranking.
About the book
The Rose Field is a fantasy novel by Philip Pullman. It is the third volume in The Book of Dust series and the final book about the character Lyra Silvertongue. The book was published on 23 October 2025 by David Fickling Books in association with Penguin Random House and Alfred A. Knopf. The Rose Field is set directly after The Secret Commonwealth, published in 2019.
Reading order · The Book of Dust
Full order & progress →- La Belle SauvageStart here
8.18.1 / 10 - The Secret Commonwealth
7.97.9 / 10 - The Rose FieldThis book
7.67.6 / 10
Where the score comes from
The sources average 6.9 across 66 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 31% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Adventure average of 7.8. That is how 7.6 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6.9 | 66 | 100% |
Frequently asked
What age is The Rose Field for?
The Rose Field sits on the Young adult shelf in the sources we use, which by convention means roughly ages 13 and up. This is a guide from the book’s category, not a publisher’s age rating. It has 672 pages — longer than 69% of the ranked books in Adventure.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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