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Reviewer:
Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
Blog Address: http://newsciencefictionandfantasyreviews.blogspot.com/
February 10, 2017
Surprises Galore
In These Tales
From Wales !!
A Review of
Susan Cooper
The Grey King (Margaret K. Elderry
Books, 2003)
$8.99 165 pp
ISBN: 978-1-4169-4967-1
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
As with the first three books in her The Dark Is Rising quintology, this
fourth book is so chock full of events (almost all of them surprises) that
there is no way I can do justice to it in a short review like this. I shall, therefore, restrict my comments here
to perhaps the most important scene, the one pertaining to the magic harp shown
on the front cover of the book. By
playing this harp at the close of this great story, Will Stanton, the newest of
The Old Ones, fulfills the prophecy on page 151:
“Fire on the mountain shall find the harp
of gold
Played to wake the Sleepers, oldest of
the old. “
It is these awakened Sleepers who defeat
The Grey King. As I read about this I
was reminded of a similar scene in Tolkien’s The Lord Of The Rings, where Strider/Aragon walks The Paths Of The
Dead, whom he awakens and then sends forth into the battle then raging on
Middle Earth.
I highly recommend this book as I have the
previous three.
Information on the author is available on
her website www.thelostland.com.
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