The Dark Is Rising (Boxed Set): The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, Over Sea, Under Stone, Silver on the Tree, The Grey King @ richardeward.com

The Dark Is Rising (Boxed Set): The Dark Is Rising, Greenwitch, Over Sea, Under Stone, Silver on the Tree, The Grey King
by Susan Cooper
from Aladdin

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Good series
  I'm re-reading the series. The first time I read it, I was 10, but I'm finding that 14 years later, the story is still good. Enjoyable plot and characters.

• The Dark is Rising (Boxed Set)
  I had forgotten how great these books by Susan Cooper are. I had a hard copy book set when they first came out. I love stories about the quest, and the battle of Light vs Darkness, and The Arthurian legend. They also fit into the Narnia Chronicle mode too. Susan writes with a descriptive style that makes you feel like you are right there experiencing Will Stanton's Adventures and the Drew family too. I recommend them for teens and anyone who loves fantasy fiction.
  D. Sutton

• The Dark is Rising Sequence
  Absolutely wonderful series....too bad they decided to skip the first book when making the movie...and too bad they didn't follow the book's storyline at all. All of the books in this series are important to the story and well worth reading for teens or grownups.

• Disappointing
  I purchased this series hoping to find one of those timeless classics like the "Wrinkle in Time" books or Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea Cycle. The Dark Is Rising series just doesn't measure up. I found some of the characters quite likeable, but the plotting is very slow in places and the description of what's going on or what the characters are seeing is sometimes incomprehensible. It's not that the books are bad, exactly; they just don't engage and hold the reader's attention the way truly great books (whether... more info

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