Gradually, they learn the truth, and the action shifts more and more to the magical world, where they are repeatedly attacked and pursued by the evil beings. Through the early chapters, the children stumble in and out of mysteries and dangers with no understanding of what they have (the stone) or what is at stake. Garner paints them vividly enough to frighten those prone to nightmares. They are as determined to get it as the far weaker forces of good are to protect it, and the children, and their powers are twisted and terrifying. Susan wears a curious stone on a bracelet inherited from her mother, and the local corps of witches, wizards and evil beings recognize it as a magical artifact essential to a plan to protect the world from the forces evil (them). Set in Cheshire (England), The Weirdstone of Brisingamen tells of Colin and Susan, brother and sister, who stumble into the magical world that exists under and around the everyday world they know. However, unlike Lewis's books, where the characters travel distinctly between the worlds, in Garner's novel the worlds interact continually and the boundaries are indistinct. 268 pages.Īlan Garner's exciting-and somewhat dark-tale of a magical threat to the world blends magical and real worlds in a manner reminiscent of Narnia.
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