HDM is more like Harry Potter or The Hobbit, in the sense that it's kid-friendly but loooong. It doesn't have any of what I think of as the stock tropes of YA -- there's no love triangles, there are complex and active/competent characters of all ages, the worldbuilding is extremely dense.
(Our first POV character is already familiar with a lot of it, too -- I was seriously confused when I read the first book as a kid, because there are so many weird concepts and alternate-universe terms that it doesn't stop to explain. Definitely a series that benefits from rereading, at any age!)
It's not a comedy like TGP, but if you want another series that sets up a cosmology for how souls/the afterlife/religion works and then explores the fallout, it's well worth checking out.
...also, I bet Lyra and Eleanor would get along swimmingly.
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(Our first POV character is already familiar with a lot of it, too -- I was seriously confused when I read the first book as a kid, because there are so many weird concepts and alternate-universe terms that it doesn't stop to explain. Definitely a series that benefits from rereading, at any age!)
It's not a comedy like TGP, but if you want another series that sets up a cosmology for how souls/the afterlife/religion works and then explores the fallout, it's well worth checking out.
...also, I bet Lyra and Eleanor would get along swimmingly.