"The boys stood frozen, gazing at him in horror; he was not for that moment a human being, but a frenzied creature possessed by rage, turned into an animal. All that could be seen in him was the urge to hurt, and it was, as it always will be, the most dreadful sight in the world." My parents sent ...
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,...
July 2013 rereadThis fourth book is where the Dark is Rising sequence begins to pick up its pace and become more epic, weaving the final battle of the Dark vs. the Light into a retold Arthurian mythos. Rereading it as an adult, I began to feel again a little bit of the magic that so entranced me as ...
This has always been my favorite book in the series, and it still is. Well, so far. I remember that the last book offered some competition, what with the climax of the series and all. But I'm pretty sure that much as I'm going to love it again, Book 4 will remain my favorite. Some of my favorite cha...
A 3.5 star review.I was glad to see that I finally warmed to Will in this one, and I really liked Bran. His heritage was perhaps slightly contrived, but I thought it worked well enough. I'm not really sure I get what the Grey King was trying to do though... perhaps just work chaos, because he also k...
Will and Bran meeting on the hillside has never stopped being magical. And yet, I can see that if I read this book the first time at the same age I read The Queen's Thief stories, I would have tossed it aside with as much disappointment.
There's a part of each of these books that stays with me, and in The Grey King, it's Bran and Cafall that I've never forgotten through the years. A boy and his dog.... What greater combination could there be? Some rival it, but only because they too have the same feeling of "Alone in this world, I h...
This might be the first Newbery winner that I felt was just 'ok'. Newbery winners go beyond plot. They feature heroes that make difficult choices and have complex lives. This story is part of Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising and I have to admit that I have only read one or two of the earlier boo...
I liked this installment, but it did not touch me. As usual, the books have great atmosphere and setting, the Wales countryside coming to life in Cooper's descriptions. I just find her books curiously dry with spurts of emotion. I did like Bran, and liked that he was the Pendragon.There was this one...
At last! I made it through a book in The Dark is Rising series…though, to do it, I had to listen to it on audiotape. This was the last book in the series. Somehow I felt like I was missing a lot by not reading the earlier books. I didn’t understand how Will came to know he was an Old One. What doe...
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