The Drew kids are back! I LIKE YOU DREW KIDS DON'T LEAVE AGAIN. I like you because you hate Will Stanton too! You think he's annoying and stupid even though he's an OLD ONE or whatever the fuck, although you don't know that so it's pretty funny that you hate him even though he totally has magical powers and wants to keep the Dark from Rising just like you do.

Basically, this book takes the best parts of Over Sea, Under Stone (the Drew kids, Merriman Lyon) and The Dark Is Rising (general magic shenanigans) and puts them together so that we get a story about the Drew kids investigating a mysterious painter of the Dark and trying to recover the stolen Grail, all while getting mixed up with the titular Greenwitch. The storytelling is more focused than in the first two books, the pacing is better, Will is less annoying, the Light doesn't just keep saving the kids all the damn time, and shit gets real. The battle between the Light and the Dark is still incredibly vague, but because the focus is more on the task at hand and the Greenwitch, the vagueness doesn't detract from this story. Now that all the exposition is out of the way, could this series actually have become...enjoyable?