by Susan Cooper
I’ve read this entire series by audiobook, and while I enjoyed it, I really think I need to go back and read them as books. Sometimes I would have gaps of days in between my listening within a book, and gaps of weeks or even months between the books themselves, so I got a little confused. The whole ...
Back in middle school, when I was discovering fantasy books and reading through my school library, one of the very first series that I found and devoured was Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising sequence. The library initially only had the first two or three books, but over the course of my time there,...
Fire on the mountain shall find the harp of goldPlayed to wake the Sleepers, oldest of the old;Power from the green witch, lost beneath the sea;All shall find the Light at last, silver on the tree.This was my Harry Potter, you kids. It is still magic.September 2013 rereadI still remember the day in ...
More heartbreak in this one, and a few scenes I remember terrifying me as a child. But it wears well, and the scenes that used to terrify me now break my heart for the characters' terror. So much love, so much pain, so much magnificence in the world we humans inhabit. This book makes for a very sati...
This was weird... with the Drew kids, Bram and Will all in the same book, this had the potential to be the best of the lot... instead it was the worst. I'm not even sure I got the hang of all that happened, because my attention kept wandering and I constantly had to force it to come back.I know Will...
Well it all comes full circle here. The last book in the Dark is Rising series is done. Yet, why do I feel so empty? I thought at first perhaps that this was part of the cost of re-reading a book or series again, that you had read the first time when you were much younger. But no, because thinking b...
My favorite of The Dark is Rising series(I really need to re-read). There's something so magical about this book--it LINGERS with me, in a way that one of the other books in this series do. And yes, part of it is because of the haunting ending, which is definitely one of my favorite endings of all t...
The most epic and cohesive of the sequence, it flows well, but it still is lacking in character for me, as well as some philosophical discrepancies.
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