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The Grey King (The Dark Is Rising #4)

Susan Cooper

Paperback | Pages: 165 pages

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Original Title:	The Grey King
ISBN:	1416949674 (ISBN13: 9781416949671)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Dark Is Rising #4
Characters:	Will Stanton, Bran Davies, Owen Davies, The Brenin Llwyd, Caradog Prichard
Setting:	Wales
Literary Awards:	Newbery Medal (1976), Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award Nominee (1977), Tir na n-Og Award (1976)

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"Fire on the Mountain Shall Find the Harp of Gold Played to Wake the Sleepers, Oldest of the Old..."

With the final battle between the Light and the Dark soon approaching, Will sets out on a quest to call for aid. Hidden within the Welsh hills is a magical harp that he must use to wake the Sleepers - six noble riders who have slept for centuries.

But an illness has robbed Will of nearly all his knowledge of the Old Ones, and he is left only with a broken riddle to guide him in his task. As Will travels blindly through the hills, his journey will bring him face-to-face with the most powerful Lord of the Dark - the Grey King. The King holds the harp and Sleepers within his lands, and there has yet to be a force strong enough to tear them from his grasp...

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Title	:	The Grey King (The Dark Is Rising #4)
Author	:	Susan Cooper
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 165 pages
Published	:	May 8th 2007 by Margaret K. McElderry Books (first published 1975)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Childrens. Middle Grade. Mythology. Arthurian. Science Fiction Fantasy

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These books are so beautiful. This one I hadnt read since I was very young and it was better than I remembered. Will is sent to Wales to recover from a long illness. The setting in the Welsh countryside is rigged and beautiful. Here Will meets a boy, Bran and his dog Cafall, they become friends and the two boys fulfill Wills quest to find the harp of gold and waken the sleepers. I just finished this and I am left haunted by the ending both glorious and tragic. Just wonderful.

Like The Dark is Rising, this is a darker series entry with the dangers greater and peril at every turn. It's Will Stanton's story again, and he is aided by an odd, albino boy Bran who has an intriguing past. A poem of sorts has run through the series, identifying what has been happening--the finding of the 6 who go against the Dark and the accoutrement that accompanies them from the grail in the first volume to the beginning of the search for the golden harp in this one, along with the

It's so much fun to return to this series with a different level of accumulated age and wisdom and a deeper understanding of the Arthurian tales that run in an undercurrent through each book. While Dark is Rising is my favorite, this is a close second. After reading other series that have covered similar ground (The Raven Cycle and The Sarantine Mosaic in particular), these adventures feel like familiar territory. In this reading, I found myself feeling like the first half was rushed.

So far my least favorite of the series, it did have a good ending though. It was able to tug more at my emotions but lacked a certain amount of structure which left it less satisfying. Hopefully the final book picks back up.

rth volume begins with Will traveling to Wales to stay with a cousin of his mothers, so he can recuperate from hepatitis. The young man is troubled because there is something important he forgot. On the way to the cousins home, he sees clouds around a mountaintop, which helps him remember one part of a prophecy spoken at the end of the third book, Greenwitch. The womans son, Rhys, says the clouds are the breath of the Grey King, a legendary figure whose home is there.Another clue to the gap in

Ive been making a slow tour through Susan Coopers The Dark is Rising sequence for a few months now. Its undeniably an important series in the fantasy canon, but my personal reaction to it has been more ambivalent. I have been rather disappointed with the novels as stories. Theyre brilliant examples of methodical mythological remixing. Yet in adjusting the tone of the books to aim them to her younger audience, Cooper also seems to feel its necessary to remove a great deal of the complexity and

It's pretty much a tradition for me now to reread this series at this time of year, so I wanted to get it done before we move into 2013. The 2012 reread of The Dark is Rising sees me struggling with anxiety and depression issues, and I nearly didn't get round to reading this, this year. But it is my comfort reading, so it was a good idea that I just planted myself firmly down with the book in hand today -- the same old battered copy as always, of course.To my mind, this is the point in the