wazbar 's review for:

The Crystal Cave by Mary Stewart
2.5
adventurous mysterious slow-paced

The first in the Merlin series, interesting but I'm not sure it grabbed me enough to read the whole series.

I found the tension between giving a grounded, historical presentation of the arthur story and explaining as tricks or exaggerations much of merlin's "magic" really strange when throughout the story Merlin also does deliver prophecies and do some genuine magic.