The Grey King (Dark is Rising Sequence, #4)
by:
Susan Cooper (author)
There is a Welsh legend about a harp of gold, hidden within a certain hill, that will be found by a boy and a white dog with silver eyes -- a dog that can see the wind. Will Stanton knew nothing of this when he came to Wales to recover from a severe illness. But when he met Bran, a strange boy...
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There is a Welsh legend about a harp of gold, hidden within a certain hill, that will be found by a boy and a white dog with silver eyes -- a dog that can see the wind. Will Stanton knew nothing of this when he came to Wales to recover from a severe illness. But when he met Bran, a strange boy who owned a white dog, he began to remember. For Will is the last-born of the Old Ones, immortals dedicated to saving the world from the forces of evil, the Dark. And it is Will's task to wake-with the golden harp -- the six who must be roused from their long slumber in the Welsh hills to prepare for the last battle between the Dark and the Light.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780689829840 (0689829841)
Publish date: October 1st 1999
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Magic,
Childrens,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Urban Fantasy,
Juvenile,
Middle Grade,
Young Adult Fantasy,
Mythology,
Arthurian
Series: Dark is Rising -5 (#4)
"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...