Cinda's review
Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Rising, Book 1)
by Susan Cooper
Cinda's review
Over Sea, Under Stone (The Dark Is Rising, Book 1) by Susan Cooper
Cinda's review
rating:
bookshelves:
young-adult
recommended for: anyone who likes simple adventures.
I loved this book the first time I read it--probably in the late nineteen sixites--and enjoy it just as much now, despite it's being intended for a younger audience. The action and characters were just as interesting to me now as before--even though I knew what was going to happen.
Susan Cooper wrote an engrossing tale of one battle in the eternal struggle between good and evil. The setting is an English coastal town, in a simpler age, when children were polite to adults, obedient to parents, occasionally rude to each other, nevertheless loyal and good to the bone! The Drew children remind me very much of the Pevensies in "The Chronicals of Narnia." Great light reading with an edge of adventure and mystery for children or adults.
Susan Cooper wrote an engrossing tale of one battle in the eternal struggle between good and evil. The setting is an English coastal town, in a simpler age, when children were polite to adults, obedient to parents, occasionally rude to each other, nevertheless loyal and good to the bone! The Drew children remind me very much of the Pevensies in "The Chronicals of Narnia." Great light reading with an edge of adventure and mystery for children or adults.
