A review by rwxtd
A Green and Ancient Light by Frederic S. Durbin

3.0

The story was all right- I really liked the whole mystery-riddle-magic aspect, and the garden was a really cool setting. It wasn't terribly well-written though. The thing that bothered me most was that the main character doesn't speak or act like a nine year old boy at all. He's like a robot or some prim and proper adult pretending to be a little boy. All in all, it's a good idea, but it wasn't quite good enough for me to really get into it. I think it would make a really good movie, but as a book it wasn't great.