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Greenwitch by Susan Cooper

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I previously read this book soon after it was published. On a recent trip, I got to listen to the audiobook version.

It holds up very well as an audiobook! The voice actor performed the characters well and the atmospheric dread of impending doom came through well.

For those not familiar with Susan Cooper's Dark Is Rising series, the premise is that history is a series of battles between the Lords of the Light and the Lords of the Dark. Into that is born the last 'Old One', as the Lords of the Light are called. Will Stanton is the seventh son of a seventh son and at eleven comes into his power as an Old One.

Throughout history, various objects of power have been made by the Lords of the Light for use at the final battle with the Dark, which is impending. Will, and then three Drew children, are used to find them.

This is a fine Young Adult series that may well become a five-star series. My standard is that the books must still be selling fifty years after publication. I'll have to come back in 2050 and update my rating. Until then, read this series.



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