The dark is rising books in order5/28/2023 The book that I kept comparing it to in my mind was, where each character was vividly drawn and the story so compelling that although I haven't read it since I was a child, 40 years later I can remember details. I had no memory of any of it from the first time I read it, and frankly I was so bored that it was an effort to finish it I just didn't care. Its Midwinters Eve, the day before Wills eleventh birthday. Check it out for the scoop on the author, the series, and her other works. This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining. Reading this again was like watching cardboard stick figures moving around on a gorgeously rendered stage. The Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper chapter summaries, themes, characters. And for the twelve days of Christmas, while the Dark is rising, life for Will is full of wonder, terror, and delight. What is fatally lacking is any depth of character and hence lack of anything to drive the plot (what there is of one) forward. At once, he is plunged into a quest for the six magical Signs that will one day aid the Old Ones in the final battle between the Dark and the Light. What Cooper does beautifully is to sketch a scene - the view from Will's bedroom window the morning of his birthday, the caroling at the manor, the great room where he first meets with the Lady and Merriman - all were thrillingly evocative. I re-read this because I just listened to the Backlisted podcast episode that was devoted to it and actually ended up bumping my rating *down* half a star.
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