A review by ianbanks
The Grey King by Susan Cooper

5.0

This is a perfect novel: it has plenty of action, nuance, a beautifully described setting and clearly-defined characters with motivations and internal lives. It is fourth in a series of five books that have gotten better and better from word 1. And it tells it all in just 150-something pages. Oh, the story? Will is recuperating from illness and goes to Wales to foil the Dark again. Don't worry about the story, just let the words do their job.