The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen: Alan Garner
The Weirdstone Of Brisingamen is a fantasy novel that is more than 50 years old, not that you can tell apart from a few things that are a bit strange to a kid in 2019, like the farmers using horse and carts and no technology at all!
It tells the story of Susan and Colin who have gone to stay with some old friends of their mother, while their parents are abroad. They are thrown into a fantasy world of wizards, dwarves and legends when they go exploring in the mysterious Alderly Edge. They meet a wizard known as Cadellin Silverbrow from whom they learn that safety of the world rests on finding the missing Weirdstone of Brisingamen. The Weirdstone holds the key to an enchantment protecting the earth from dark forces.
When Colin and Susan realise that they know where the Weirdstone is, they are hunted by the svarts, minions of the dark spirit Nastrond. They have to battle the shape shifting sorceress Selina Place and the evil wizard Grimnir.
With the help of the dwarves Durathror and Fenodyree as well as Cadellin Silverbrow they have to find and return the Weirdstone to its rightful place.
I was reluctant to pick up this book at first due to its fairly uninteresting start (might just be me), but it turned out to be a pretty cool and exciting read. The flight of Colin and Susan in the dark, deserted mine shafts of Alderly Edge being particularly good and makes you feel very claustrophobic. This is the first in a trilogy of books, but I have not read the next ones and this does work as a standalone book. This book has no violence and so is suitable for younger readers too.
It tells the story of Susan and Colin who have gone to stay with some old friends of their mother, while their parents are abroad. They are thrown into a fantasy world of wizards, dwarves and legends when they go exploring in the mysterious Alderly Edge. They meet a wizard known as Cadellin Silverbrow from whom they learn that safety of the world rests on finding the missing Weirdstone of Brisingamen. The Weirdstone holds the key to an enchantment protecting the earth from dark forces.
When Colin and Susan realise that they know where the Weirdstone is, they are hunted by the svarts, minions of the dark spirit Nastrond. They have to battle the shape shifting sorceress Selina Place and the evil wizard Grimnir.
With the help of the dwarves Durathror and Fenodyree as well as Cadellin Silverbrow they have to find and return the Weirdstone to its rightful place.
I was reluctant to pick up this book at first due to its fairly uninteresting start (might just be me), but it turned out to be a pretty cool and exciting read. The flight of Colin and Susan in the dark, deserted mine shafts of Alderly Edge being particularly good and makes you feel very claustrophobic. This is the first in a trilogy of books, but I have not read the next ones and this does work as a standalone book. This book has no violence and so is suitable for younger readers too.
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