5/13/2023 0 Comments The grey king![]() The book centers around Will Stanton, age 11 but also the youngest of the Old Ones, ancient magical beings locked in a struggle between the Light and the Dark. I looked up plots of all the books, to make sure I actually could start in on Book Four, and I think I pretty much could…so in a way this was a lucky mistake, since I didn’t waste time on the others. Which is kind of how The Grey King turned out too. I didn’t hate it, but I found the conflict strangely dull and the climax totally flat. I’d read The Dark Is Rising (which, oddly, is Book Two…) and I didn’t like it much. But I wouldn’t have given it any awards either. However, by the time I realized that I had the audiobook sitting in my car and nothing else to listen to, so away we went. If I had realized it was part (Book Four) of her Dark Is Rising series, I might not have. Reading down my list of Newbery Medal winners, I liked the sound of The Grey King by Susan Cooper. ![]()
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