I needed a book to fill a hideous cover bingo square. This one fit the bill. Good book, ugly ass cover.

I read Over Sea, Under Stone several years ago and didn't like it, but I've been intrigued this series since coming across it (repeatedly, but never in the right reading order) in the library as a child. So I picked up Greenwitch and The Grey King and I'm glad I did.I can't say I understood what was going on in the broad scope of the setting beyond the story - I suspect going back to read the second book would help - but the immediate adventure was intriguing and calmly absorbing. The suggestion...

Synopsis: Children shouldn't play with dead things, wild things, or green things; but if they do, they shouldn't stint on the compliments. A little empathy goes a long way!This middle volume of Cooper's wonderful series is the second and last to center on the Drew siblings, "the three from the track". Three cheerful, curious, and often very excitable kids who never wore out their welcome. Yay for the Drews! See you all again in book five.I really liked watching eerie series protagonist Will Stan...

Greenwitch is the shortest book of the sequence, and yet that doesn’t mean that little happens. It’s perhaps the most densely packed with symbolism and meaning and mythology that you just can’t get a handle on: the drowned man, the ship going inland, Roger Toms, the Wild Magic… This book, to me, emphasises the aspects of this sequence which are otherworldly and quite beyond the human characters, even while the humanity of those characters plays a huge part. It is Jane’s human kindness which wins...

The eerie one, as opposed to the intensely disturbing one, which for me will always be The Grey King.I remembered this as a slight, inconsequential book. The weird-shaped one in the middle where the kids meet each other on vacation before we get really serious. I didn't remember -- or likely didn't understand -- just how serious this little book is.Here's where it crystallized for me. Simon and Jane have a brief run-in with Will's American aunt, who is delighted with all the 'natives and their q...

In this third book in the Dark is Rising series, the protagonists from book one meet the protagonist from book two and things start coming together. This is another solid entry to the series and I’m still loving every minute of it. It’s certainly helping to take my mind off my torn rotator cuff...

Greenwitch is the third in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series. It unites the protagonists of the previous two books. Will Stanton meets Barney, Simon, and Jane. Together, they foil the latest plot of the Dark, which involves stealing a secret artifact from the Greenwitch. This entity is a construct of twigs and leaves built by the women of Trewissick in an elaborate, night-long ceremony. They assemble the Greenwitch, then the men of the village cast it over the cliff and into the sea below...

Re-read June 2013I'm noticing this time around how clever Cooper is to show these events through the Drews' eyes, rather than Will's. The second book was of Will discovering and growing into his power; now we see him fully grown, as it were, relaxed and confident in his role as Old One, and the Drew children's outside perspective on him is invaluable. When he coolly deflects Simon's boyish attempts to quarrel, the way he treats Merriman as a peer--in the previous book, from Will's own point of v...

This was an excellent bridge to set up the rest of the series. I LOVE Susan Cooper’s comfort with various mythologies as well as her character development. For example, the Drew children are heroic but suitably treated like children! Fabulous! And I think I have a literary crush on Will Stanton; I’ll let you know as the series continues. Overall, this was a very enjoyable adventure.

I do believe this was the second time I’ve read this. I know I read it when I was young, but not since. I do think Susan Cooper’s Dark is Rising sequence is one of the best fantasy series written. This one is set by the sea in Cornwall again. The Grail which Simon, Jane and Barney discovered months before has been stolen. Great Uncle Merry takes them to Cornwall again where they meet Will Stanton. Of course they think Will is a boy but we know that Will is the last born of the Old Ones. There is...

Mostly read on the northmost beach on Iona, which perhaps skews things a little.

The evocation of Roger Toms was a last minute addition and felt forced. Otherwise, a nice little story that ties the first two books together nicely. I can't wait for the next book in Wales!

The middle volume of probably the best kids series is just as superlative as the rest. Throwing all the kids from the first two books together for a crazy adventure in Cornwall is fun and you can start to see all the various threads coming together."Greenwitch" is about the, you guessed it, Greenwitch, a cobbled-together effigy the women of a Cornish village make and then throw into the sea. Except it is actually a living creature, imbued with the Wild Magic that could give few fucks about the w...

Haunting little book in the middle of Cooper's "The Dark is Rising" sequence. A young girl is swept up in ritual and myth as she watches Cornish village women construct and cast into the sea a "greenwitch"; a propitiatory straw and seashell sculpture. Very neo-pagan and steeped in British folkloric custom; I felt a strong desire to reread this after watching an episode of "Poldark" where the Cornishwomen are awaiting the annual running of the pilchard, but alas my copy has been lost to downsizin...

This is a book with magic in its pages, its phrases, its words. There were moments when my neck hairs rose, especially during the making of the Greenwitch, and times when I was transported by the sheer poetry within a paragraph or passage. If this short novel in Susan Cooper's five-book fantasy sequence occasionally feels poised between revelation and resolution, that's no doubt because it's the middle book in the series: it's here where earlier strands become more intertwined but where we can't...

This turned out to be far more interesting than I remembered. For some reason I had classed this with the first, Over Sea Under Stone, as lesser. I guess you just need to be in the right mood for re-reading. This is another chapter in the war between the Light and the Dark, and it brings together characters established in the first 2 volumes: Simon, Barney, and Jane from the first book and Will Stanton from the second. And of course, the siblings' Uncle Merry is involved as well. The Greenwitch

The first book in this series was a treasure hunt plot with hints of magic. The second book in this series was all about the magic with little actual plot. This book, the third in the series, combines the two, with magic AND a plot. The results are... okay.My main problem with the series so far is that not a lot of details are given about this ongoing battle between the Light and the Dark. Through two books we've been told of this ancient battle, and we've sort of seen some fights, but though th...