If that’s his only reason for being there, it’s not a very good one. It seems like he’s only there to receive the message deciphered from the Grail at the end of the book-I can’t think of anything else he does that is instrumental or that any of the Drews could not do themselves. It’s up to the children to muddle through as best they can, skirmishing here and there with an ancient of the Dark. As with previous books, the Gandalf-like figure of Merriman haunts the outskirts of the pages, dispensing vague advice, like “Beware the Greenwitch”. We never learn what the terrible consequences might be if the Dark retrieves the secret. (Will still kind of bores me.) Nevertheless, the level of conflict and sense of peril remains steady for most of the book. Cooper writes well considering her audience I can understand how children would be captivated by the types of danger that Simon, Barney, and Jane face. My critiques of this book are quite similar to how I felt about the previous books.
But the Greenwitch has the secret that will decipher the Grail, and things are more complicated.
This is supposed to bring renewal for the fisherman. They assemble the Greenwitch, then the men of the village cast it over the cliff and into the sea below.
This entity is a construct of twigs and leaves built by the women of Trewissick in an elaborate, night-long ceremony. Together, they foil the latest plot of the Dark, which involves stealing a secret artifact from the Greenwitch. Will Stanton meets Barney, Simon, and Jane. It unites the protagonists of the previous two books. Greenwitch is the third in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising series.
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