There's little more I can say about this book: I don't understand people who don't like it, who can't see the layers of ambiguity in it, the way there's always more to discover. The bad guys weren't really that bad- they followed all the rules! Silver Tree Steiner School is an independent school offering a dynamic, creative and contemporary educational pathway. (See, I wanted to like this book. Throughout the whole series the story suffered from a removed and distant point of view, so I never felt anxious or sad of happy about anything that happened. They can choose the Light or the Dark, but once that decision has been made, their subsequent choices for the most part either seem to be dictated by prophecies or instructions that come to them or else don't really matter in the end. Please try again. Silver on the Tree (The D... has been added to your Cart Add a gift receipt for easy returns. Summary. by Susan Cooper. Her classic. Well, here we are, at the end of a very long journey. Will thinks life cannot get better than this, but he soon realizes it is but a lull before the great and last battle against the Dark. The story in "Silver on the Tree" is an engaging one, and Cooper, who studied with Tolkien, did her homework when it came to Arthurian legend and the themes of great fantasy. Some authors treat magic in a somehow mechanistic way, although perhaps no explanation is offered for how the magic works. While each of the series is written to stand alone, readers won't get the full story without reading the other, excellent, books first. Susan Cooper's poor pacing continues, as we begin with random racism that's supposed to represent the Dark's hold on humanity or something, and then there's some magic shit, and then there's random domestic drama, and now here's some English and Welsh history LIKE I CARE, and then there's the Lost Lands where Will and Bran go through a mirror maze or something, and the Drew kids are on a train for some reason, and, seriously, I just plain gave up trying to pay attention about halfway through the book. The ache in my heart right now is the same. This is the fifth and last book in "The Dark Is Rising" sequence. It also analyses reviews to verify trustworthiness. Definitely a fantastic end to a fantastic series! Writing primarily for children, she refuses to dumb down her vocabulary or simplify her style; they can hold their own with any book penned for adults. I was especially affronted by how the female characters are either air headed (Jane) or magical. Save on selected Bestselling Children's books. SO a five book series comes down to a three page climax in which the main character (can't really call him a protagonist because of how little he actually does) is little more than an observer. But that scarcely mattered, because I was interested in how Bran would decide his own fate, and how John Rowlands would respond to an unexpected twist in his life, and how Will would deal with the ongoing struggle of being a twelve-year-old Old One, and so on. Ironically, Will Stanton actually has more human moments in this book than he's had in a while, so to balance it out, Bran basically loses all sense of self and sleepwalks through his destiny. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. I realized, listening to the books, that they're not so much about what happens as about the tone, the sense of place, and the way that good and evil work themselves out in the world. 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