A review by bollerud
The Weirdstone of Brisingamen by Alan Garner

2.0

Is there a German word for that feeling where you suspect you would have enjoyed a book, if only you discovered it when you were 12, not in your hoary old 30s? That's the feeling I got from this book. Wizards and spells and hidden worlds and the english countryside usually work like magic on me, but not this one. The children were pretty underdeveloped, the adventure passages felt interminable, and in the end I didn't care enough about the poor weirdstone to finish it. Alas.