Seaward by Susan Cooper
May. 8th, 2003 01:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lathanySusan Cooper is famous for her children's series The Dark Is Rising (five books). My favourite of this is The Dark Is Rising (book 2) and when ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
venta wrote her "Christmas" entry, it sounded amazingly like the Stanton one in the book (from decorating the tree to attending the church service). Having enjoyed that series I eventually decided to read some more of her work.
Also a children's book; Seaward is about two children, having lost their parents, stepping into another reality and making their way across a strange landscape. They head seawards trying to follow "rules" of the land that they do not understand. Seaward has two main characters who appear as different threads (Westerley and Calliope) and focuses on their journeys, the people they meet and their growing relationship. It also incorporates a Cornish legend into the book - that of Rhiannon of the Roane.
On the surface, Seaward is not dissimilar to Waking Dream. However, in substance, Seaward is more about the journey and the legend whilst Waking Dream spends far more time set in the real world and invests far more into the relationship between its characters, specifically Bethany and Poppy.
But the main thing was - overall I enjoyed it immensely. Particularly after the disappointment that was The Merlin Conspiracy.
Now back to sorting out Empathy Path magic...
venta wrote her "Christmas" entry, it sounded amazingly like the Stanton one in the book (from decorating the tree to attending the church service). Having enjoyed that series I eventually decided to read some more of her work.Also a children's book; Seaward is about two children, having lost their parents, stepping into another reality and making their way across a strange landscape. They head seawards trying to follow "rules" of the land that they do not understand. Seaward has two main characters who appear as different threads (Westerley and Calliope) and focuses on their journeys, the people they meet and their growing relationship. It also incorporates a Cornish legend into the book - that of Rhiannon of the Roane.
On the surface, Seaward is not dissimilar to Waking Dream. However, in substance, Seaward is more about the journey and the legend whilst Waking Dream spends far more time set in the real world and invests far more into the relationship between its characters, specifically Bethany and Poppy.
But the main thing was - overall I enjoyed it immensely. Particularly after the disappointment that was The Merlin Conspiracy.
Now back to sorting out Empathy Path magic...
