The Dark Is Rising Sequence, Book One: Over Sea, Under Stone

While this series has been around for a bit I'm only getting to it now. "Over Sea, Under Stone" was an excellent beginning to a extended Arthurian Legend story line. A children's adventure with good suspense that still remains in the realm of the almost possible. I'm looking forward to the next one.

Famous five meets Lord of the Rings. This is the first in the "The Dark is Rising" sequence, and much lighter. The whole set, most recommended.

I'm currently rereading this series...and, as always, I skip the first book in the series because it always felt the most childish out of all of them to me. I'm reading it now as an adult and enjoying it more than I have in the past. It's a slow start to what is a haunting beautiful series. I recommend them all.

The beginning of a great story, though perhaps not the best of the series.

I read this book before and just finished listening to it. It's very enjoyable.

My 10-year old daughter and I are tag-team reading this. I'm losing. That's ok. Is this any good? On chpt 1.

Best modern day childrens mystery book ! Eye popping!

beautiful

An Amazon reviewer (E. A Solinas) captured, for me, the essence of the book in a single sentence: "The Drew kids [the main characters of the book] are the sort of siblings that pop up in old E. Nesbit books -- plucky, chirpy and on vacation." Yes, the family's renting a vacation house. They have a cook and lots of time with the parental units conveniently absent. This isn't an terribly clever...more

An Amazon reviewer (E. A Solinas) captured, for me, the essence of the book in a single sentence: "The Drew kids [the main characters of the book] are the sort of siblings that pop up in old E. Nesbit books -- plucky, chirpy and on vacation." Yes, the family's renting a vacation house. They have a cook and lots of time with the parental units conveniently absent. This isn't an terribly clever story. The characters won't astound you. There will not be any surprising twists. But there are some thrilling moments as the kids try to escape lurking bad guys. This is an enjoyable adventure story written for children. Again, if you've read E. Nesbit (or even some of Madeleine L'Engle's adventure books like Arm of the Starfish) you know exactly what sort of story to expect here.   hide