NEW SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY REVIEWS
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Reviewer: Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com 770-583-3258
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February 9, 2017
THE GRAIL: Stolen And Recovered
A Review of
Susan Cooper Greenwitch (Margaret K. Elderry Books, 2002
$8.99 147 pp ISBN: 978-1-4169-4966-4
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
Book Three of Susan Cooper’s wild-and-crazy quintology begins with a newspaper article reporting the theft of The Grail from the museum to which it had been donated by the Drew siblings (Jane, Simon, and Barney) whose dramatic Quest of The Grail was told in Book One, Over Sea, Under Stone. Soooo, now the Drew teens need to go on another Quest for The Grail [should we call it the Re- Quest??], this time in partnership with eleven year old Will Stanton, who has recently been inducted into the ranks of The Old Ones, the leaders of The Light [as told by Cooper in Book Two, The Dark Is Rising].
This Quest (or Re-Quest) is very different from the original Quest, and it includes obtaining a secret manuscript, which task involves The Greenwitch referred to in the title of Book Three, which is one of the oddest beings I have ever come across in fantasy literature!
I highly recommend this book, as I have the first two, and I am now in the process of reading Book Four. Information on the author is available on her website www.thelostland.com
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